The Kiss ( Rodin sculpture ) - Wikipedia The Kiss ( Rodin sculpture ) The Kiss French : Baiser Francesca da Rimini Artist Auguste Rodin Year 1882 ( 1882 ) Type Marble 181.5 cm × 112.5 cm × 117 cm ( 71.5 in × 44.3 in × 46 in ) Location Paris Owner Musée Rodin The Kiss ( French : Le Baiser ) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing nude 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. Contents 1 Background 2 Small versions 3 Large marble carvings 3.1 French commission 3.2 Warren 's commission 3.3 Jacobsen 's commission 3.4 Other versions 4 Cornelia Parker 5 Popular culture 6 References 7 External links Background The Gates of Hell, sculpture by Rodin, where the concept for the sculpture originated. 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. Small versions 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. Large marble carvings French commission In 1888, the French government ordered the first large - scale marble version of The Kiss from Rodin for the 1889 Exposition universelle, but it was publicly displayed for the first time in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux - Arts in 1898. It was so popular that the company Barbedienne offered Rodin a contract to produce a limited number of smaller copies in bronze. In 1900 the statue was moved to the Musée du Luxembourg before being taken to its current location, the Musée Rodin, in 1918. Warren 's commission In 1900, Rodin made a copy for Edward Perry Warren, an eccentric American collector who lived in Lewes in Sussex, England, with his collection of Greek antiquities and his lover John Marshall. After seeing The Kiss in the Salon de Paris, the painter William Rothenstein recommended it to Warren as a possible purchase, but The Kiss had been commissioned by the French government and was not available for sale. In its place, Rodin offered to make a copy and Warren offered half of its original price ( 10,000 francs, instead of 20,000 ), but Rodin would not lower the price. The contract for the commission included that `` the genitals of the man must be complete. '' A previous letter explained that `` being a pagan and lover of antiquities '', Warren hoped that the genitals of the man would be sculpted prominently in the Classical Greek tradition rather than modestly hidden. When the sculpture arrived in Lewes in 1904, Warren placed it in the stables at the back of his home, Lewes House, on School Hill, where it remained for a decade. It is not known whether this location was chosen due to the great size of the sculpture or because it did not fulfil Warren 's expectations. In 1914 the sculpture was loaned to the Lewes town council and put on public display in the Town Hall. A number of puritanical local residents, led by headmistress Miss Fowler - Tutt, objected to the erotic nature of the sculpture. They were particularly concerned that it might encourage the ardour of the large number of soldiers who were billeted in the town at that time, and successfully campaigned to have the sculpture draped and screened from public view. It was returned to Warren 's residence at Lewes House in 1917 where it remained stored in the stable for 12 years until Warren 's death in 1928. The beneficiary of Warren 's will, H. Asa Thomas, put the sculpture up for sale with Gorringes, the local auctioneers, but it failed to meet its reserve price and was withdrawn from sale. A few years later it was loaned to the Tate Gallery in London. In 1955 the Tate bought the sculpture for the nation at a cost of £ 7,500. In 1999 between 5 June and 30 October, The Kiss returned briefly to Lewes as part of an exhibition of Rodin 's works. Its regular home is now the Tate Modern - however, in September 2007, the work was transferred to the Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock where it assumed pride of place for the duration of the celebrations surrounding both that city 's 8th Centenary and Liverpool 's European Capital of Culture status in 2008. It is currently on loan to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in Auckland, New Zealand ( until 16 July 2017 ). Jacobsen 's commission The Kiss in marble at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. A third replica was commissioned in 1900 by Carl Jacobsen for his projected museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The replica was made in 1903, and became part of the initial collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inaugurated in 1906. Other versions The three larger marble versions were exhibited together at the Musée d'Orsay in 1995. A fourth copy, about 182.9 centimetres ( 72.0 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 - Léon Gréber for the Rodin Museum of Philadelphia. A plaster cast can be found in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes of Buenos Aires. A large numbers of bronze casts have been done of The Kiss. The Musée Rodin reports that the Barbedienne foundry alone produced 319. According to French law issued in 1978, only the first twelve can be called original editions. Cornelia Parker Bronze cast in Museo Soumaya, Mexico City In Spring 2003, artist Cornelia Parker intervened in The Kiss ( 1886 ) with the permission of the Tate Britain gallery, where it was exhibited at the time, by wrapping the sculpture in a mile of string. This was a historical reference to Marcel Duchamp 's use of the same length of string to create a web inside a gallery in 1942. Although the intervention had been endorsed by the gallery, many viewers of the sculpture felt it offensive to the original artwork, prompting a further, unauthorised, intervention, in which Parker 's string was cut by Stuckist Piers Butler, while couples stood around engaging in live kissing. Popular Culture The Kiss is said to have been the influence for the song `` Turn Of The Century '', found on the 1977 release of `` Going For The One '' by the British band Yes. The Kiss is figured into the plot of the All in the Family episode `` Archie and The Kiss, '' where Archie Bunker tries to make his daughter, Gloria, give back a reproduction of the sculpture she had been given by the Bunkers ' friend, Irene Lorenzo. Archie expresses his disgust over the morality of the sculpture and sexuality in artwork. The statue is used for a Terry Gilliam animation in Monty Python 's Flying Circus. The female extends her left leg straight out, and the male moves his right hand over it, covering holes with the fingers and playing her like a flute. The Kiss was part of a side story in Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney 's debut novel The Nest, where the sculpture is stolen from the rubble of ground Zero after 9 / 11. ( 2016 ) In the original life - sized work, the male is in an aroused condition. In most American miniatures, this has been censored, and shows the male in a neutral gender. References On the terrace of the Musée de l'Orangerie in the Tuileries Garden, Paris Jump up ^ Inventory Number MIN 609 Jump up ^ National Museum of Fine Arts ( Argentina ). `` Le basier ( el beso ) ''. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina. Retrieved 17 October 2016. Jump up ^ de Roos, Hans. `` The Barbedienne Example ''. Rodin - Web. Retrieved 17 October 2016. Jump up ^ Fenton, James ( 8 March 2003 ). `` No strings attached ''. the Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2016. Jump up ^ Image of Duchamp 's Mile of string at University of Aberdeen Jump up ^ Thomson, Charles. `` A Stuckist on Stuckism ''. Stuckism International. Retrieved 17 October 2016. This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish - language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of 17 July 2005. Hale, William Harlan. The World of Rodin 1840 -- 1917. New York : Time - Life Library of Art, 1969. External links Link to The Kiss on the official website of the Musée Rodin. The Kiss, Analysis and Critical Reception The Kiss, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Object Number 1974.36, bronze cast No. 9. Ny Calsberg Glyptotoek, Copenhagen, Denmark Tate Britain, London, England Alighieri, Dante. Inferno, Canto V TateShots video a short video of the work from Tate Britain Rodin : The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on The Kiss Auguste Rodin ( 1840 -- 1917 ) Works The Thinker locations The Kiss The Gates of Hell Adam Eve Man with the Broken Nose ( 1863 ) Alsatian Orphan ( 1871 ) The Age of Bronze ( 1876 ) The Walking Man ( 1877 - 1878 ) La Defense ( 1879 ) Crouching Woman ( 1880 -- 1882 ) Saint John the Baptist ( 1880 / 1907 ) Ugolino and His Sons ( 1881 ) I am beautiful ( 1882 ) The Falling Man ( 1882 ) Eternal Springtime ( 1884 ) The Burghers of Calais ( 1884 -- 1889 ) Pierre de Wiessant The Prodigal Son ( 1885 ) The Martyr ( 1885 ) Avarice and Lust ( 1885 - 1887 ) Damned Women ( 1885 -- 1890 ) Fugitive Love ( 1886 - 1887 ) Ovid 's Metamorphoses ( 1886 -- 1889 ) Head of Saint John the Baptist ( 1887 ) Standing Mercury ( 1888 ) Brother and Sister ( 1890 ) Cybele ( 1890 / 1904 ) Monument to Balzac ( 1892 - 1897 ) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk ( 1892 ) The Spirit of Eternal Repose ( 1898 -- 1899 ) Standing Female Faun ( 1910 ) Museums Hôtel Biron, Paris Musée Rodin, Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Plateau, Seoul People Camille Claudel In popular culture Camille Claudel ( 1988 film ) Camille Claudel 1915 ( 2013 film ) Rodin ( 2017 film ) Dante 's Divine Comedy Characters and locations Inferno Acheron Alichino Barbariccia Ciampolo Cocytus Dis Ugolino della Gherardesca Malacoda Paolo Malatesta Malebranche Malebolge Minos Odysseus Phlegethon Francesca da Rimini Satan Scarmiglione Styx Virgil Purgatorio Cato the Younger Forese Donati Eunoe Beatrice Portinari Statius Paradiso Adam Thomas Aquinas Bernard of Clairvaux Bonaventure Cacciaguida Charles Martel of Anjou David Empyrean Justinian I Peter Lombard Piccarda Verses `` Papé Satàn, papé Satàn aleppe '' `` Raphèl mai amècche zabì almi '' Adaptations Classical music Après une Lecture de Dante : Fantasia quasi Sonata ( Liszt, 1849 ) Dante Symphony ( Liszt, 1857 ) Francesca da Rimini ( Tchaikovsky, 1876 ) Francesca da Rimini ( Rachmaninoff, 1904 ) Francesca da Rimini ( Zandonai, 1914 ) Gianni Schicchi ( Puccini, 1918 ) The Divine Comedy ( Smith, 1996 ) Paintings The Barque of Dante ( Delacroix, 1822 ) The Wood of the Self - Murderers : The Harpies and the Suicides ( Blake, 1827 ) Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil ( Scheffer, 1835 ) Pia de ' Tolomei ( Rossetti, 1868 ) Paolo and Francesca da Rimini ( Rossetti, 1885 ) La barca de Aqueronte ( Hidalgo, 1887 ) La Laguna Estigia ( Hidalgo, 1887 ) Sculptures The Kiss ( Rodin, 1882 ) The Thinker ( Rodin, 1904 ) The Gates of Hell ( Rodin, 1917 ) Architecture Danteum ( Terragni, 1938 ) Modern music Inferno ( 1973 album ) `` Dante 's Inferno '' ( 1995 song ) Dante XXI ( 2006 album ) A Place Where the Sun Is Silent ( 2011 album ) Film L'Inferno ( 1911 ) Dante 's Inferno ( 1924 ) Dante 's Inferno ( 1935 ) The Dante Quartet ( 1987 ) A TV Dante ( 1989 ) Dante 's Inferno ( 2007 ) Dante 's Inferno : An Animated Epic ( 2010 ) Dante 's Hell Animated ( 2013 ) Literature The Story of Rimini ( 1816 ) La Comédie humaine ( 1830 -- 1850 ) Earth Inferno ( 1905 ) The Cantos ( 1917 -- 1962 ) As I Was Going Down Sackville Street ( 1937 ) The System of Dante 's Hell ( 1965 ) Demon Lord Dante ( 1971 ) Inferno ( 1976 ) The Dante Club ( 2003 ) Jimbo 's Inferno ( 2006 ) Inferno ( 2013 ) Video games Tamashii no Mon ( 1994 ) Devil May Cry series ( 2001 ) Bayonetta ( 2009 ) Dante 's Inferno ( 2010 ) The Lost ( cancelled ) Related Cultural references in Divina Commedia Dante Alighiere and the Divine Comedy in popular culture English translations Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli Botticelli Inferno, 2016 documentary Francesca da Rimini media Art Paolo and Francesca da Rimini The Kiss Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta appraised by Dante and Virgil Film Drums of Love Opera Francesca da Rimini ( Rachmaninoff ) Françoise de Rimini ( Thomas ) Francesca da Rimini ( Zandonai ) Orchestral Francesca da Rimini ( Tchaikovsky ) Poetry Divine Comedy Inferno Theatre Francesca da Rimini ( D'Annunzio ) BNF : cb12552639h ( data ) GND : 4519187 - 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Question: where is the statue of the kiss located
Answer: Paris