Rodin, Auguste - The Kiss, 1989 - bronze sculpture - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title:  The Kiss, 1898
• Artist (if known):  Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
• Media or other details:  bronze
• Publisher / Gallery: National Museums and Galleries in Wales
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A315

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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The Kiss is an 1889 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the Gates and replaced with another pair of lovers located on the smaller right-hand column.

The sculpture, The Kiss, was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's Inferno (Circle 2, Canto 5) who falls in love with her husband Giovanni Malatesta's younger brother Paolo. Having fallen in love while reading the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, the couple are discovered and killed by Francesca's husband. In the sculpture, the book can be seen in Paolo's hand. The lovers' lips do not actually touch in the sculpture, suggesting that they were interrupted and met their demise without their lips ever having touched.

When critics first saw the sculpture in 1887, they suggested the less specific title Le Baiser (The Kiss).

Rodin indicated that his approach to sculpting women was of homage to them and their bodies, not just submitting to men but as full partners in ardor. The consequent eroticism in the sculpture made it controversial. A bronze version of The Kiss (74 centimetres (29 in) high) was sent for display at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The sculpture was considered unsuitable for general display and relegated to an inner chamber with admission only by personal application.

Rodin's method of making large sculptures was to employ assistant sculptors to copy a smaller model made from a material which was easier to work than marble. Once they had finished, Rodin himself would put the finishing touches to the larger version.

Before creating the marble version of The Kiss, Rodin produced several smaller sculptures in plaster, terracotta and bronze.

The three larger marble versions were exhibited together at the Mus�e d'Orsay in 1995. A fourth, smaller copy, about 90 centimetres (35 in) in height � compared to 181.5 centimetres (71.5 in) for the copy in Paris � was made after the death of Rodin by sculptor Henri-L�on Gr�ber for the Rodin Museum of Philadelphia. A plaster cast can be found in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires.^[2]

A large numbers of bronze casts have been done of The Kiss. The Mus�e Rodin reports that the Barbedienne foundry alone produced 319.^[3] According to French law issued in 1978, only the first twelve can be called original editions.

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