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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Lot 186
21.10.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 50 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 832346
Lot 186 | Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 70 000
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Le baiser, 4ème réduction dit aussi petit modèle

signé 'Rodin' (sur le rocher, à droite) et avec la marque du fondeur 'F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR.' (sur le rocher, à gauche); frappé 'T' (sur le pourtour); frappé '17' (à l'intérieur)

bronze à patine brun foncé

Hauteur: 25.4 cm.

Conçu en 1886; cette version dite "4ème réduction dit aussi petit modèle" réalisée dans cette taille en 1898; cette épreuve fondue entre 1904 et 1908



signed 'Rodin' (on the rock, on the right) and with the foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR.'(on the rock, on the left); stamped 'T' (on the rim); stamped '17' (on the inside)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 10 in.

Conceived in 1886; this version referred to as "4ème réduction dit aussi petit modèle" executed in this size in 1898; this bronze cast between 1904 and 1908





Provenance

Établissements LeBlanc-Barbedienne, Paris.

Collection particulière, Roumanie.

Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolae Ionescu, Roumanie.

Puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.



Literature

G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 47, nos. 91 et 92 (une autre version illustrée).

G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Monaco, 1947, p. 142, no. 71 (la version en marbre illustrée, pl. 71).

C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962 (la version en marbre illustrée in situ, p. 49).

I. Jianou et C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100 (la version en marbre illustrée, pl. 54 et 55).

J.-L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum Philadelphia, Philadelphie, 1976, p. 77, no. 151 (la version en marbre illustrée).

N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin, Collection du Musée , Paris, 1987, p. 184, no. 79 (la version en marbre illustrée, p. 185).

A. Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin, cat. exp., Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1995, p. 20 et 43 (autres versions illustrées, fig. 2, 3 et 7).

A. E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visuals Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, p. 214-215, no. 49 (une autre épreuve illustrée).

A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, Catalogue des œuvres conservées au Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 159-163, no. S. 776 (une autre épreuve illustrée, p. 161).
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