Lot Essay
A photo-certificate from Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle dated June 27, 1989 accompanies this sculpture.
Details
EMILE ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929)
Beethoven masque aux grands cheveux
signed, dated and inscribed on the right side ANT BOURDELLE 1889 Etude pour la 3eme Sculpture de Beethoven, signed with initials and stamped bottom left EB A VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE, numbered and inscribed on the back III © by Bourdelle--bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 18¾ in. (47.6 cm.)
Original version executed in 1889; this bronze version cast at a later date, number three in an edition of eight plus two artist's proofs
Beethoven masque aux grands cheveux
signed, dated and inscribed on the right side ANT BOURDELLE 1889 Etude pour la 3eme Sculpture de Beethoven, signed with initials and stamped bottom left EB A VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE, numbered and inscribed on the back III © by Bourdelle--bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 18¾ in. (47.6 cm.)
Original version executed in 1889; this bronze version cast at a later date, number three in an edition of eight plus two artist's proofs
Literature
ed. Musée Bourdelle, Sous le signe d'Apollon, Paris, 1959,
no. 6 (related version)
ed. Charles Slatkin Gallery, Antoine Bourdelle, New York, 1961 (traveling exhibition catalogue; cf. related version, illustrated, p. 29)
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, no. 72
C.M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221, no. 125 (another cast illustrated,
p. 125)
no. 6 (related version)
ed. Charles Slatkin Gallery, Antoine Bourdelle, New York, 1961 (traveling exhibition catalogue; cf. related version, illustrated, p. 29)
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, no. 72
C.M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221, no. 125 (another cast illustrated,
p. 125)