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Property from a New England Collection
ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929)
Héraklès archer, première étude, nu incomplet sans base
Details
ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929)
Héraklès archer, première étude, nu incomplet sans base
signed with monogram and inscribed '© BY BOURDELLE' (on the back of the bow); numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'N° 3 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the bottom of the foot)
bronze with dark brown patina
10 5⁄8 x 16 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (27.1 x 41.9 x 17.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1909; this bronze version cast in 1961
Héraklès archer, première étude, nu incomplet sans base
signed with monogram and inscribed '© BY BOURDELLE' (on the back of the bow); numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'N° 3 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the bottom of the foot)
bronze with dark brown patina
10 5⁄8 x 16 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (27.1 x 41.9 x 17.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1909; this bronze version cast in 1961
Provenance
Musée Bourdelle, Paris (until 1962).
(possibly) Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980.
(possibly) Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980.
Literature
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p. 91.
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 104, no. 392.
A. Le Norman-Romain, Héraklès Archer: Naissance d’une oeuvre, Paris, 1992, pp. 24 and 72, no. 2, fig. 13 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 104, no. 392.
A. Le Norman-Romain, Héraklès Archer: Naissance d’une oeuvre, Paris, 1992, pp. 24 and 72, no. 2, fig. 13 (another cast illustrated).
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale