The eroticism of Rodin's The Kiss caused controversy when it was first displayed but over the past century it has become the best-known sensual sculpture in Western art. The director of the ...

Of all the statues in London’s Tate Gallery, none is more famed than Rodin’s The Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best.