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AUGUSTE RODIN (1840-1917)
Le Baiser, quatrième réduction dite aussi "petit modèle"
signed 'Rodin' (on the top of the rock); inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE. Fondeur' (on the left side of the rock); stamped 'RÉDUCTION MÉCANIQUE A COLLAS BREVETE' (on the right side of the rock); stamped with chaser's mark 'I' (on the rim)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1886; this reduction in 1898; this bronze version cast circa 1898-1903
Provenance
Établissements LeBlanc-Barbedienne, Paris
Alex Cohen, New York (before 1975).
Private collection, New York (by descent from the above).
Acquired from the above 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 2022-6688B.
Literature
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 47, nos. 91-92 (marble version illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 142, no. 71 (marble version illustrated, pl. 71).
C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, p. 49 (marble version illustrated).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, p. 62 (larger version illustrated, p. 63).
B. Champigneulle, Rodin, London, 1967, pp. 157 and 282, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated, pp. 162-163).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin Lausanne, 1967, pp. 130-131 (marble version illustrated, pls. 54 and 55).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated).
L. Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, p. 121 (marble version illustrated, pl. 49).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 and 108 (marble version illustrated, p. 77).
R.M. Rilke, Rodin, Salt Lake City, 1982, pp. 38 and 104 (another cast illustrated, p. 39).
A.E. Elsen, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin Stanford, 1985, pp. 78 and 80-81 (another cast illustrated, p. 79, fig. 70).
N. Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection du Musée, Paris, 1987, pp. 184 and 258, no. 79 (marble version illustrated, p. 185; detail illustrated, p. 187).
M. Laurent, Rodin, Paris, 1988, p. 104, no. 2 (marble version illustrated, p. 105).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Le Baiser de Rodin, Paris, 1995, p. 20 (another cast illustrated, fig. 2).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, Paris, 1997, pp. 48-49 (terracotta version illustrated).
J. Vilain, Rodin at the Musée Rodin, London, 1997, p. 39 (marble version illustrated in color).
R. Masson and V. Mattiussi, Rodin, Paris, 2004, p. 40 (marble version illustrated in color, p. 41; terracotta version illustrated in color, p. 42).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin: Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, pp. 158-162 (other casts illustrated; marble version illustrated, p. 163, figs. 1-3).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2014, pp. 133-134 (terracotta version illustrated in color, p. 132, fig. 121; marble version illustrated, p. 133, figs. 122-123; marble version illustrated again in color, p. 135, fig. 127).