LOT DETAILS
Materials:
bronze with brown patina
Size Notes:
39.4
Description:
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Markings:
signed 'Rodin'
Literature:
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Muse Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 47, nos. 91-92 (marble version illustrated). G. Grappe, Le Muse 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 Muse, 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). J. Vilain, Rodin at the Muse Rodin, London, 1997, p. 39 (marble version illustrated in color).A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, Paris, 1997, pp. 48-49 (terracotta version illustrated). 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 Muse 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).
Provenance:
Acquired by the present owner, by circa 2005.This work will be included in the forthcoming Auguste Rodin catalogue critique de l'oeuvre sculpt currently being prepared by the Comit Auguste Rodin at Galerie Brame et Lorenceau under the direction of Jrme Le Blay under the archive number 2022-6690B .