92. The Kiss

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92. The Kiss

Auguste Rodin

1840, Paris, Franța - 1917, Meudon, Franța

Estimate:

EUR 3.000 - 5.000

Sold

EUR 5.000

bronze with black patina, 51 x 32 x 32 cm, 51 Ã 32 Ã 32 cm, signed left side, by incision, "A. Rodin"; stamped at the base, "ARA KUNST"

Research information

Wax version made around 1886; first bronze casting using the lost-wax method, circa 1910-1919, by the foundry F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR, Paris; this casting is made by ARA KUNST foundry, Germany.

In 1880 Auguste Rodin was commissioned by the future Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris for the "Gates of Hell" project, a project that was partially completed, and which would produce two of his most famous works: "Gânditorul" ("The Thinker") and "Sărutul" ("The Kiss"). "Sărutul" ("The Kiss") was reworked in 1887 as an individual work, and later in 1898, following a commission from the French government, to which the sculptor would devote almost ten years.

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