Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 217. Le Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle.

Property from the Collection of Myrtle Katzen, Washington D.C.

Auguste Rodin

Le Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Myrtle Katzen, Washington D.C.

Auguste Rodin 

1840 - 1917


Le Baiser, 4ème réduction ou petit modèle

inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne, Fondeur; variously stamped (on the interior)

bronze

height: 10 in. 25.4 cm.

Conceived in 1886; this reduction conceived in 1898; this example cast between 1900-05.


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 2001-7B.

Private Collection, France

Étude Le Houelleur-Ruellan, Deauville, 2 April 1994, lot 117

Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, 28 September 1994, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)

M. Munir Abu-Haidar, New York

Christie's, New York, 11 July 2001, lot 155

Irving Galleries, Palm Beach (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Maryland

Acquired by descent 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, 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 the 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, n.p., illustration of another cast

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of the Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. 1, Paris, 1997, no. S. 2393, pp. 158-63, illustrations of other casts