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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 39 | $****** - ****** | BAISER, 1ÈRE RÉDUCTION DITE AUSSI "NO. I" |
sculpture
71.3 cm (28.07 in)
Bronze
Inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne. Fondeur; stamped with the letter K, numbered 19/I and inscribed 70856 (on the interior)
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired by the 1970s)
Private Collection, Belgium (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above
Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, London, 1917, illustration of another cast pl. 6
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 114, illustration of the marble version p. 57
Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 71, illustration of the larger marble version n.p.
Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, illustration of the marble version pl. 71
Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, illustration of the marble version p. 49
Bernard Champigneuelle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78-79, illustrations of the marble version pp. 162-63
Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, illustration of the larger marble version p. 131
Ionel Jianou & Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 100, illustrations of the marble version pls. 54-55
Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 49, illustration of the marble version p. 121
John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, illustration of the marble version p. 77
Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, illustration of the marble version pls. 108-09 & on the dust jacket
Hélène Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 34, illustration of the marble version p. 46
Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection de Musée Rodin, Paris, 1987, no. 79, illustration of the marble version p. 185
Pierre Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 585
David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, illustrations of another cast pp. 60-61
Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49, illustrations of another cast pp. 214-15
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, vol. I, Paris, 2007, illustration of another cast p. 160
Inscribed Rodin and with the foundry mark F. Barbedienne. Fondeur; stamped with the letter K, numbered 19/I and inscribed 70856 (on the interior)
Bronze
Height: 28 in.
71.3 cm
Conceived in 1886, this reduction conceived in 1898; this example cast in 1908.
