Cast of Rodin's The Kiss sells for $2.5 million

A bronze cast of French 19th century sculptor Auguste Rodin's famous The Kiss was bought by a US collector for 2.2 million euros ($2.5 million) at a Paris auction on Tuesday.

The auction house, Binoche et Giquello, said in a statement the work sold at more than 10 percent above its top estimate, and set a record price for a Rodin cast made after the sculptor's death.

The 85 centimeter-high cast was part of a sale of five small to medium-size Rodin bronzes from the collection of late French art dealer Jean de Ruaz. It was produced in 1927, ten years after Rodin's death, by the same Alexis Rudier foundry that had cast many of Rodin's pieces.