Rodin Auguste/Sculpture "The Kiss" representing a couple sitting embracing and kissing. Bronze lost wax casting with black patina. Published by the foundry Airaindor Valsuani at the end of the 90s, beginning of the 2000s. Rare. Signed + founder's stamp + stamp "Reproduction 1998". (according to the French law). Worn and dirty. H 25 X 14 cm.
Provenance: private collection from Liège.
The original model of this world famous sculpture was created in 1882. The marble version will be ordered by the French state in 1888 and sculpted between 1888 and 1898. It entered the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1901 and was transferred to the Musée Rodin in 1919. The Kiss originally represented Paolo and Francesca, characters from The Divine Comedy, a poem by Dante Alighieri. This work is without doubt the most sensual of the artist. Rodin knew how to give his sculptures a lively and sensual relief that some censors of the time found obscene. His literary and mythological themes paved the way for symbolism, and while he remained faithful to traditional materials, he developed the technique of assemblage that would be taken up by 20th century sculptors.
The Valsuani Foundry, later renamed Airaindor Valsuani or Fonderie de Chevreuse, is a French art bronze foundry, located in Chevreuse, closed in 2016. It worked for many artists such as César Baldaccini, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti and many others.
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