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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2016 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | Le Baiser, moyen modèle dit "Taille de la Porte" - second état |
sculpture
84.5 cm (33.25 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
Musée Rodin, Paris.
B. Gerald Cantor, New York, by whom acquired from the above in July 1970.
Barbara P. Johnson, Monaco.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1984, lot 87.
Charles Pankow, California, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 2004, lot 3.
Acquired by the present owner in May 2010.
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 166, p. 58 (marble version illustrated).<br>C. Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage, Paris 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated).<br>A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 62 (another version illustrated p. 63).<br>B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 162-163 & 282, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated).<br>R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 130 (marble version illustrated p. 131).<br>I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated pls. 54-55).<br>L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, London, 1970, pl. 49 (marble version illustrated).<br>J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 & 108 (marble version illustrated p. 77).<br>J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 149-152 (another cast illustrated p. 148).<br>N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, p. 184, no. 79 (marble version illustrated p. 185).<br>F.V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography, New York, 1987, pp. 187-90, 221-22, 260, 262, 275-276, 281-282, 342, 373-374, 400, 457 & 577.<br>D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 60 (another cast illustrated).<br>R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, p. 40 (marble version illustrated p. 41; terracotta version illustrated p. 42).<br>A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. S.472, pp. 159-163 (another cast illustrated pp. 158-159).<br>
