LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

15.51 in. (39.40 cm.) (height)

Edition:

edition of 105 between 1898 and 1919

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne. Fondeur.

Literature:

Georges Grappe, . Catalogue du Musée Rodin , Paris, 1927, no. 148, illustration of the marble version p. 59. Albert E. Elsen, . Rodin , New York, 1962, illustration of the larger cast p. 63. Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, . Rodin , Paris, 1967, nos. 54 & 55, illustration of the marble version n.p. Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, . Auguste Rodin , Paris, 1967, illustration of the marble version p. 131. John L. Tannock, . The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin , Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of the marble version p. 77. . Rodin sculpteur, Œuvres méconnues (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1992-93, no. 131, illustration of another cast p. 155. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, . Le Baiser de Rodin , Paris, 1995, no. 42, illustration of another cast n.p. John L. Tancock, . Rodin en México: Colección de escultura europea de los siglos XIX y XX , Mexico, 1997, no. 47, illustration of another cast n.p. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, . The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin , Paris, 2007, vol. I, no. S.2061, illustration of another cast p. 161; the present cast listed p. 161. Robert Bowman, . Rodin in Private Hands , London, 2014, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 67

Provenance:

Victor Grossi, Chile. Private Collection, Chile (acquired from the family of the above in 1995; sale: Sotheby's, London, 6th February 2001, lot 106). Purchased at the above sale by the present owner