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Artist |
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Auguste Rodin |
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Title |
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Le Baiser, moyen modèle dit Taille de la Porte
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Medium |
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bronze with brown patina |
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Size |
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34 x 0 in. / 86.4 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1880 - 1881 |
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1887 - 1901 |
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Description |
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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Le Baiser, moyen modèle dit "Taille de la Porte" (modèle avec base simplifiée)
signed 'Rodin' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 34 in. (86.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1880-1881 and cast between 1887-1901 |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
[Lot 5]
Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 22 October 1975, lot 107.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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Literature |
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G. Grappe, Catalogue de Musée Rodin, Paris 1944, p. 58, no. 166 (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, pp. 162-163, nos. 78-79 (marble version illustrated).
R. Descharnes and J.-F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 131 (marble version illustrated in color).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100 (marble version illustrated, pls. 54-55).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 72, 90 and 108 (marble version illustrated, p. 77).
J. de Caso and P.B. Sanders, Rodin's Sculpture, San Francisco, 1977, pp. 149-152 (another cast illustrated, p. 148).
F.V. Grunfeld, Rodin, A Biography, New York, 1987, pp. 187 ff.
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 the Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 159-160, no. S.472 (another cast illustrated, p. 158; another cast illustrated again in color, p. 159)
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