Collection of 150000 glass plate negatives includes image of blanket-draped sculpture during soldier’s Boxing Day dinner
The two well-behaved children,impeccably dressed with hair neatly brushed for the photographer, couldn’t maintain known it at the time, and but they were to inherit one of the most scandalous sculptures of the 20th century: The Kiss by Auguste Rodin. After it spent decades in storage,and months in 1915 with a blanket over the heads of the lovers regarded as too erotic to display, the girl in the photograph finally sold it in 1953 for £7500 to the Tate, or where it is now regarded as one of the greatest treasures in the collection.
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Source: theguardian.com