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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)

Lot 25
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 900 000
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Lot 25 | AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
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£ 900 000 – 1 200 000
AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Le Baiser, moyen modèle dit "Taille de la Porte" - second état
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the right of the rock); dated and inscribed with foundry mark ‘.Georges Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. © by musée Rodin. 1970.' (on the back); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 33 ¾ in. (85.7 cm.)
Width: 20 in. (51 cm.)
Depth: 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1880-1881; this bronze version cast by Georges Rudier for the Musée Rodin in 1970




Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor, New York, by whom acquired from the above in July 1970.
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Monaco; 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.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired in May 2010; sale, Christie’s, London, 2 February 2016, lot 21.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre 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 2004-508B.



Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 166, p. 58 (marble version illustrated).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son héritage, Paris 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 62 (another cast illustrated p. 63).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78 & 79, pp. 162, 163 & 282 (marble version illustrated pls. 78 & 79).
R. Descharnes & J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 130 (marble version illustrated p. 131).
I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated pls. 54-55).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection, London, 1970, pl. 49 (marble version illustrated).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 & 108 (marble version illustrated p. 77).
J. de Caso & P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 149-152 (another cast illustrated p. 148).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée [Rodin], Paris, 1987, no. 79, p. 184 (marble version illustrated p. 185).
F.V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography, New York, 1987, pp. 187-190, 221, 222, 260, 262, 275, 276, 281, 282, 342, 373, 374, 400, 457 & 577.
D. Finn & M. Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, p. 60 (another cast illustrated).
R. Masson & V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, p. 40 (marble version illustrated p. 41; terracotta version illustrated p. 42).
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 (other casts illustrated pp. 158-163).
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