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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 446 | $****** - ****** | Le baiser, 4ème réduction dit aussi petit modèle |
sculpture
25.1 cm (9.88 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed "Rodin" (on the back of the rock) and stamped with the foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur" (on the left side of the rock); numbered "F 13" (on the inside)
Établissements LeBlanc-Barbedienne, Paris.
Private collection, France, by whom acquired in the 1960s-1970s, and thence by descent.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l"œuvre sculpté currently being prepared by the Comité Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2022-6736B.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, nos. 91-92, p. 47 (marble version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le musée Rodin , Paris, 1944, no. 71, p. 142.
G. Grappe, Le musée Rodin , Paris, 1947, no. 71, p. 142 (marble version illustrated fig. 71).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin , New York, 1963, no. 63, p. 218 (another version illustrated p. 63; dated "1880-1882").
R. Descharnes & J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin , London, 1967 p. 130 (marble version illustrated p. 131).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin , Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated pls. 54-55).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures , London, 1970, no. 49, p. 121 (marble version illustrated).
J. L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia , Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 90 & 108 (marble version illustrated p. 77).
J. de Caso & P. Sanders, Rodin"s Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection , San Francisco, 1977, no. 22, pp. 149-152 (another cast illustrated pp. 148 & 150).
R.M. Rilke, Rodin , Salt Lake City, 1982, pp. 38 & 104 (another cast illustrated p. 39).
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin , Stanford, 1985, pp. x & 78-81 (another cast illustrated fig. 70, p. 79; dated "1881").
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, Collection du Musée , Paris, 1987, no. 79, pp. 184 & 258 (marble version illustrated pp. 185 & 187).
M. Busco, Rodin and His Contemporaries, The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection , New York, 1991, p. 229 (another cast illustrated pp. 60 -63; dated " circa 1880-1884").
A. Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin , Paris, 1995, nos. 21 & 34, p. 78 & 90 (other versions and casts illustrated figs. 2 & 7, pp. 20-21; dated "1887").
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , Paris, 1997, p. 49 (terracotta version illustrated p. 48).
J. Vilain, Rodin at the Musée Rodin , London, 1997, p. 39 (marble version illustrated).
"Within the Burning Marble" in Rodin and His Work , Paris, 1998, p. 42 (marble version illustrated p. 43).
J.A. Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth, Rodin and Camille Claudel , Munich, London & New York, 1999, p. 126 (marble version illustrated p. 49; dated "1888-1889").
A. Pingeot, "Rodin au Musée du Luxembourg," La Revue du Musée d"Orsay , Autumn 2000, no. 11, pp. 67-70, 74.
R. Butler & S.G. Lindsay, European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Systematic Catalogue , Washington, D.C., 2000, no. 1942.5.15, pp. 326 & 329-330 (another version illustrated pp. 327-328; plaster and marble versions illustrated figs. 1 & 2 respectively, p. 329).
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation (ed.), Rodin, A Magnificent Obsession , Los Angeles, 2001, no. 83, p. 104 (another cast illustrated p. 105; dated " circa 1881-1882").
A.E. Elsen & R.F. Jamison, Rodin"s Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University , New York, 2003, no. 49, pp. 214-215 (another cast illustrated p. 214 & fig. 167, p. 215).
R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin , Paris, 2004, p. 40, (different versions illustrated p. 41 & p. 42; dated " circa 1887").
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.2393, p. 162 (other versions illustrated pp. 158-162; marble version illustrated figs. 1-3, p. 163).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin , New York, 2014, pp. 133-134 (different versions illustrated figs. 121-123, pp. 132-133 & fig. 127, p. 135).
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Le baiser, 4ème réduction dit aussi petit modèle
signed "Rodin" (on the back of the rock) and stamped with the foundry mark "F. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur" (on the left side of the rock); numbered "F 13" (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 9 7/8 in. (25.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1886; this reduction in 1898; this bronze version cast by LeBlanc-Barbedienne between 1914 and 1918
