Auguste Rodin

Le Baiser, 3ème réduction

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November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Elegance and Charm: Prop🌠erty from an Imporꦅtant Family

Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

Le Baiser, 3ème réduction

inscribed with artist's signature; numbered 266 and inscribed with the letter S (on the underside); stamped with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne. Fondeur

bronze

height: 15½ in.

39.4 cm.

Conceived in 1886; this reduc🐟tion conceived in 1901; this example executed 🔯between 1910-18.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpté d'Auguste Rodin currently being prepared by the Comité Rodin in collaboration with Galerie Brame & Lorenceau un🙈der the direction o🙈f Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2004V466B.

Etude Loudmer, Palais Galliera Paris, 16 March 1970, lot 54
Etude Loudmer, Palais Galliera Paris, 25 March 1971, lot 127
B. Gerald Cantor, Beverly Hills
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Demain, United States (acquired as a gift from the above in 1976)
Christie's New York, 5 May 2004, lot 208 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Tokyo
Sotheby's London, 20 June 2006, lot 452 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, no. 148, p. 59, illustration of the marble
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 63, illustration of a larger cast
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, pp. 54-55, illustration of the marble
Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 131, illustration of the marble
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p. 77, illustration of the marble

Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Metamorphoses in Nineteenth Century Sculpture, 1975-76, illustrated