Property from an Important Private Collection, Colorado
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
Grande Pénélope
Auction Closed
November 21, 09:32 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from an Important Private Collection, Colorado
Émile Antoine Bourdelle
1861 - 1929
Pénélope, grande version sans fuseau, deuxième étude
stamped Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, ΠHNEΛOΠH OΔΥΣΣHA ΠPΟΣMENΟΥΣ and with the Musée Bourdelle monogram, dated 1912 and numbered E.A. 1
bronze
height: 95 in. 241 cm.
Conceived in 1912 and cast in an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs; this example cast in 1987 by the Susse foundry, Paris.
Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle (the artist’s daughter)
Margo Pollins Schab, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner
Pierre Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, p. 27, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p. 85, illustration of another version; p. 86
Carol Marc Lavrillier and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1979, pp. 116 and 228-29, illustration of another version
Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1984, no. 319, p. 96
Colin Lemoine, Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, 2004, no. 37, illustration of another cast
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