The Chauviré-Courrant Auction House will host, on April 25 in Angers, the sale of a miniaturized and bronze copy of the Kisssigned Auguste Rodin. The work is exhibited from this Saturday, April 19, at the Maine sales hotel.
It is a bronze statuette sixty centimeters high, melted in 1904, declination of marble of more than a ninety meter representing a entwined couple hosted at the Rodin museum in Paris. As of this Saturday, April 19, it is possible to admire it in Angers, before its auction on April 25, reports Le Figaro.
The work, from a private collection, is “Unpublished and rare”according to a press release from the Chauviré-Curant Sales House. The test was “Fondue during the lifetime of the artist Augustus Rodin, signed under the left buttock of the woman, which is one of the first three fonts of the kiss model 60 cm called 2nd reduction produced between July and September 1904”.
According to Raphaël Current, the auctioneer of the sale, the sculpture is estimated between 300,000 and 500,000 euros. “The authenticity of bronze was carried out by the Rodin committee, based in Paris”he said, quoted by Le Figaro.
-A transmission between fencing enthusiasts
The history of this bronze is atypical. The artist was ordered by the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to offer it as a wedding gift to the world champion in French fencing Lucien Mérignac.
The work was bequeathed by Mérignac to his second wife, also passionate about fencing, who sold it to an antique dealer in the 1940s. It was ultimately one of his fencers who bought it to exhibit it in his living room. She is the current saleswoman.
Posted on April 19 at 9:53 a.m., LG, 6medias
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