For many years, the statue in the Montparnasse cemetery attracted the attention of only tourists and lovers who came here to mourn and confess their eternal love to each other. Everything changed when it became clear who the author of the sculpture was: it turned out to be one of the most expensive sculptors in the world — Constantin Brancusi. That’s where it all started…
The sculpture «The Kiss» was installed back in 1911 on the grave of 23-year-old Tatyana Rashevskaya. It is known about the girl that she came from a wealthy Jewish family, was born in Kyiv, lived in Moscow for several years, and in 1910 left the country and entered the medical faculty in Paris.
I le inisitituti, na tupu ai lana masani mataʻutia ma Solomona Marbe, o se fomaʻi, o le na aʻoaʻoina i lea taimi ma lea taimi i tamaiti aoga iina. E tusa ai ma tala, o le tamaititi aoga ma le faiaoga sa i ai se mafutaga, o le iuga lea, e foliga mai, na nutimomoia ai le loto o le teine. Ina ua sau le tuafafine o le fomaʻi iā Tatiana i le faaiʻuga o Novema 1910 e toe faafoi ana tusi alofa, na ia iloa ai ua tautau le tamaitiiti aʻoga. O le tusi pule i le ola na tautala ai i le tele o le alofa e le taulia.
Ina ua uma le falelauasiga, na le fiafia Marbe, ma liliu atu i lana uo le tagata vane faatagata ma se talosaga e fai se maa tuugamau, ma taʻu atu ia te ia se tala faanoanoa. Ona fanau ai lea o le Kisi. E leʻi fiafia le aiga o Tatiana i le galuega, lea na faʻapipiʻi ai tagata fiafia le lavalava i se sogi, ma na latou faʻafefe foi e suitulaga i se mea e sili atu ona masani. Ae latou te lei faia lena mea.
I le va o le 1907 ma le 1945, na faia ai e Constantin Brancusi le tele o lomiga o le Kiss, ae o le faʻatagata lenei mai le 1909 e sili ona faʻaalia. Semanu e fa'aauau pea ona tu matagofie i le ea fou pe ana fai e le'i i ai se aso e le'i amata su'e ai e le fa'atau tufuga Guillaume Duhamel po'o ai e ana le tuugamau. Ma ina ua ia mauaina ni aiga, sa vave ona ia ofo atu e fesoasoani ia i latou e "toefuataʻiina le faamasinoga" ma "faasaoina le faatagata", pe sili atu, puʻeina ma faʻatau atu. O le taimi lava na maeʻa ai, na auai ai nisi o loia i le mataupu.
According to experts, the cost of «The Kiss» is estimated at about $ 30-50 million. The French authorities do not want to lose Brancusi’s masterpiece and have already included his work in the list of national treasures. But while the law is still on the side of relatives. The price of victory is so high that now the family’s lawyers are doing everything possible to return the sculpture to its rightful owners. In the meantime, the final decision of the court has not been made, «The Kiss» was nailed into a wooden box so that nothing could happen to it. And then there’s little…
O se mea e faanoanoa ai ona o se tala alofa matagofie, e ui lava ina mataʻutia, e ono faaiʻu faapenei ... leai se mea. Ma e tusa lava po o le a le suiga o le lalolagi, tatou te maua pea i tatou lava i lena mea moni pe a, i le feteenaiga o tulaga taua faaletagata ma mea faitino, o tupe e iu lava ina avea ma faamuamua mo nisi. Ma e na o se kisi o le alofa moni e leai se aoga, ae i le taimi lava e tasi e taugata mo i tatou.