Lot 9
  • 9

Émile-Antoine Bourdelle 1861-1929

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
  • La Marquise (Silvia de Mari)
  • inscribed © By Bourdelle and with the A. Valsuani foundry mark, inscribed VI (on two sides of base); monogram (to side of neck)
  • bronze with dark red-brown and mottled grey-green patina
  • Height: 15 in.
  • 38.2 cm.
  • model executed in 1887, this cast is number 6 from an edition of 10

Provenance

Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January, 1966

Exhibited

Ottawa, National Gallery of Art; New York, Charles Slatkin Galleries; Toledo Art Museum; St. Louis City Art Museum: Antoine Bourdelle, October 5, 1961-April 1, 1962.

Literature

Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p. 70
Carol Marc Lavrillier and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle et la Critique de son Temps, Argenton-sur-Creuse, 1992, p. 52. (another cast illustrated)

Condition

generally good condition, moderate rubbing to patina at extremities
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