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Property of a Gentleman

Auguste Rodin

Le Baiser, 2ème réduction dit aussi no. 4

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property of a Gentleman

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917


Le Baiser, 2ème réduction dit aussi no. 4

inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne. Fondeur; numbered 12 (on the interior); inscribed with the letter K (on the underside)

bronze

height: 23½ in. 59.7 cm.

Conceived in 1886; this reduction conceived in 1904 and cast between 1914-18 by the Barbedienne foundry, Paris.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'œuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2010-3232B.

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in the 1970s)
Sotheby's, London, 17 February 2019, lot 346 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris 1927, p. 47, illustration of the marble version
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris 1947, pl. 71, illustration of the marble version
Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage, Paris 1962, n.p., illustration of the marble version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, London 1963, p. 63, illustration of another cast
Bernard Champigneulle, Rodin, London 1967, pp. 162-63, illustration of the marble version
Robert Descharnes and Jean François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne 1967, pls. 54-55, illustration of the marble version
Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris 1967, pls. 54-55, illustration of the marble version
Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London 1970, p. 121, illustration of the marble version
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia 1976, p. 77, illustration of marble version
Jacques de Caso and Patricia Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, San Francisco 1977, p. 150, illustration of another cast
Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, collection du musée, Paris 1987, pp. 185 and 187, illustrations of the marble version
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin/The Kiss by Rodin, Paris 1995, fig. 3, illustration of another cast 
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, Paris 1997, p. 48, illustration of the terracotta version
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York 2003, pp. 214-15, illustration of another cast
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris 2007, no. S.2393, pp. 158-63, illustrations of other casts
Dominique Viéville, Rodin: corps et décors, Paris 2010, illustration of another cast