Sculptor: Auguste Rodin
Colors: 10
Price: 700 Euro
Dimensions: 32.0 * 26.0 cm
The Kiss, c.1889, Musée Rodin, Paris.
Auguste Rodin born François-Auguste-René Rodin (1840 – 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community.
The Kiss is an 1889 marble sculpture. Like many of Rodin’s best-known individual sculptures, including The Thinker, 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.