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Auguste Rodin 1840-1917 LE BAISER Signed A. Rodin and stamped with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris Bronze, dark brown patina Height: 33 1/2in. 85.1cm. Conceived circa 1886 and cast in 1923. Provenance Musee Rodin, Paris Jules Mastbaum, Philadelphia (acquired from the above on August 27, 1925) Thence by descent to the present owner Literature Paul Gsell, Auguste Rodin, die Kunst, Gesprache des Meisters gesammelt von Paul Gsell, Leipzig, 1918, illustration of the marble featured in a photograph of the studio, frontispiece Musee Rodin, catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d'Auguste Rodin et autres oeuvres d'art de la donation Rodin, Hotel Biron, Paris, 1924, no. 77, illustration of the marble p. 33 Musee Rodin, catalogue sommaire des oeuvres d'Auguste Rodin et autres oeuvres d'art de la donation Rodin, Hotel Biron, Paris, 1926, no. 77, illustration of the marble p. 31 Georges Grappe, Catalogue du Musee Rodin, Paris, 1944, no. 166, illustration of the marble p. 58 Rainer Maria Rilke, Auguste Rodin, London, 1946, illustration of the marble pl. VI Jean Charbonneaux, Les sculptures de Rodin, Paris, 1949, discussed p. XII, illustration of another cast pls. 50 and 51 Anonymous, Auguste Rodin, Leicester, 1951, illustration of the marble pl. 49 Cecile Goldscheider, Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre, son heritage, Paris, 1962, illustration of the marble p. 49 Albert E. Elsen, Rodin, New York, 1963, illustration of another cast p. 63 Auguste Rodin, an Exhibition of Sculptures/Drawings (exhibition catalogue), Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; The Art Gallery of Toronto; Winnipeg Art Gallery; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City; Cleveland Museum of Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Minneapolis Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Fogg Art Museum, Havard University, Cambridge; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1963-65, no. 103, illustration of the marble p. 95 Rodin (exhibit