Auguste Rodin
Le Baiser , 1898 (Conceived)
Lot #27 |
2021-11-30 |
Poly International Auction, Hong Kong
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Association with Phillips Auction
Category:
Sculpture
Estimate:
HKD 10,000,000 - 15,000,000 (currency of sale)
USD 1,282,495 - 1,923,743 (approx.)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Poly International Auction
Auction number: JA2111PP-E
Auction name: 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Association with Phillips Auction
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: Hong Kong
Start date: 2021-11-30
Currency: HKD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Sculpture
Department: Sculpture & 3D Art
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Dimensions: 71.4 x 43.6 x 45.8 cm. (28 1/8 x 17 1/8 x 18 in.)
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
71.4
Width In Centimeters:
43.6
Depth In Centimeters:
45.8
Height In Inches:
28.125
Width In Inches:
17.125
Depth In Inches:
18
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Year notes: Conceived in 1886 in a larger scale, this scale was conceived in 1898 and the present lifetime example was cast in bronze by F. Barbedienne Fondeur in May 1914.
Provenance
Collection of the President of the National Libraries of France (gifted by the National Libraries of France on 26 May 1914) Private Collection (by descent from the above) Sotheby's, London, 1 March 2017, lot 32 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, London, 1917, pl. 6 (another bronze example illustrated) Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1929, no. 114, p. 57 (marble example illustrated) Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 71 (marble example illustrated) Georges Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, pl. 71 (marble example illustrated) Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1962, p. 49 (marble example illustrated) Bernard Champigneuelle, Rodin, London, 1967, nos. 78-79, pp. 162-163 (marble example illustrated) Robert Descharnes & Jean-François Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 131 (marble example illustrated) Ionel Jianou and Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, edition pls. 54-55, p. 100 (marble example illustrated) Ludwig Goldscheider, Rodin Sculptures, London, 1970, no. 49, p. 121 (marble example illustrated) John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, Philadelphia, 1976, p.77 (marble example illustrated) Albert E. Elsen, In Rodin's Studio: A Photographic Record of Sculpture in the Making, Oxford, 1980, pls. 108-109, dust jacket (marble example illustrated) Hélène Pinet, Rodin, sculpteur et les photographes de son temps, Paris, 1985, no. 34, p. 46 (marble example illustrated) Nicole Barbier, Marbres de Rodin: Collection de Musée Rodin, Paris, 1987, no. 79, p. 185 (marble example illustrated) Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 585 (another bronze example illustrated) David Finn & Marie Busco, Rodin and his Contemporaries: The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection, New York, 1991, pp. 60-61 (another bronze example illustrated) Albert E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Centre for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 49, pp. 214-215 (another bronze example illustrated) Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin vol. I, Paris, 2007, p. 160 (another bronze example illustrated)