Lot 322
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Émile-Antoine Bourdelle

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
  • Maternité
  • Inscribed Bourdelle and © by Bourdelle, numbered VII and stamped with the foundry mark A. Valsuani Cire Perdue  
  • Bronze 
  • Height: 20 3/8 in.
  • 51.7 cm

Provenance

Slatkin Galleries, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, October 29, 1970, lot 2)
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Antoine Bourdelle: An Exhibition of sculptures / drawings (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa & Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1961 & traveling 1961-1967, pl. 29, illustration of another cast p. 54
Ionel Jianou & Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1978, no. 203, p. 88, illustration of another cast pl. 34
Carol Marc Lavrillier & Michel Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, no. 158, illustration of another cast p. 158

Condition

The sculpture bears a dark brown patina. Some surface dirt in the deepest crevices and a few minor dots of accretion near underside and to crook of the mother's left arm. There is a small dot of patina rubbing on the figures nose, otherwise fine. This work is in very good condition.
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