{"id":3436,"date":"2022-12-02T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galerienem.cluster011.ovh.net\/produit\/le-baiser-reduction-n-2-vers-1882\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:42:20","slug":"the-kiss-reduction-n-2-circa-1882","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/produit\/the-kiss-reduction-n-2-circa-1882\/","title":{"rendered":"THE KISS, SMALL SCALE\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0n\u00b0 2\u00a0\u00bb ( 1886)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The forbidden love between Paolo and Francesca (Fifth Canto of Dante’s Inferno), and the eternal damnation, which resulted from this, is one of the 19th century\u2019s favourite themes, from Ingres and Delacroix to Ary Scheffer and Cabanel. Rodin chose to depict the two lovers as they become aware of their feelings in a tender and carnal embrace. In 1885, Octave Mirbeau in Des artistes<\/em> described the sculpture in its almost finished version in terracotta which was started in 1882: “The young and charming body in which the artist has brought together, as if for pleasure, all the delicate and sensual beauties of women, her arms wrapped around her lover’s neck, in a gesture both passionate and chaste, abandons herself to Paolo’s embrace and kiss, whose flesh trembles with pleasure and whose youthful athletic strength is shown in an elegant and powerful musculature, a true incarnation of male beauty, as Fran\u00e7oise de Rimini is that of women’s grace”. In 1886-1887, Rodin firstly decided to install the sculpture in the centre of the left-hand door of The Gates of Hell, but finally removed it because the figure, most harmonious \u00a0and evoking a state of pure bliss, did not fit in with the composition. Exhibited in Paris and then in Brussels the following year (1887), it was named Le Baiser<\/u>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Its success earned it to be commissioned in marble by the Direction des Beaux-Arts on 31 January 1888. Rodin took almost ten years to deliver it and did not consider exhibiting it until 1898 at the Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des beaux-arts, as a counterpart to the daring Balzac.\u00a0<\/em>In 1900, however, the marble copy, which in the meantime had been delivered to the Fine Arts Department, was presented at the Universal Exhibition. From 1901 to 1918, it became one of the masterpieces of the Mus\u00e9e du Luxembourg before being deposited in the Mus\u00e9e Rodin when it was created in 1918.<\/p>\n

On July 6, 1898, Auguste Rodin agreed with the Leblanc-Barbedienne foundry on a 10 year renewable edition contract for Le Baiser<\/em> in four sizes and unlimited quantity. The 25cm scale is one among the initial sizes of the subject, edited as soon as 1898. In 1901, and then in 1904, further editions of the sculpture came out in two other sizes.<\/p>\n

Around 93 copies of the 2nd small scale reduction have been inventoried with a height of 25.7 cm, produced between 1898 and 1918.The sculpture itself, its mount, the founder\u2019s stamp as well as the inscriptions carved inside are common to the techniques and practices of the Barbedienne workshops.The quality of its sand casting and that of its nuanced patina allow the full appreciation of the beauty and force of this major artwork of the end of the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Auguste RODIN<\/span><\/h1>\n

Bronze with brown nuanced patina, signed \u00abRodin\u00bb.
\nCast by Barbedienne during the artist’s lifetime.
\nBears the founder’s mark \u00ab\u00a0F. BARBEDIENNE fondeur\u00a0\u00bb, the letter “F” imprinted, the number \u00ab\u00a017\u00a0\u00bb engraved near the sculpture’s mount.
\nCirca1915<\/p>\n

Heigth: 65.28\u2033 x Width: 39.88\u2033 x Depth: 40.39\u2033<\/p>\n

Cast in between 93 and 103 copies (according to the information provided by the comit\u00e9 Rodin).<\/p>\n

Provenance: \u00c9tablissements Leblanc barbedienne, Paris\u00a0; private collection, France (acquired in 1960-1970)\u00a0; by descent.
\nLiterature: A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin et le bronze, catalogue des \u0153uvres conserv\u00e9es au Mus\u00e9e Rodin<\/em>, Paris, 2007, volume 1, pages 159 to 163, model reproduced on page 161.<\/p>\n

A notice of insertion in the Catalogue critique de l’oeuvre sculpt\u00e9 d’Auguste Rodin<\/em>, currently under preparation at the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, under the direction of J\u00e9r\u00f4me Le Blay, dated December, 10, 2022 n\u00b0 2022-67368 will be handed over to the buyer.<\/p>\n

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