Details
EMILE ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929)
Mélancolie
signed, dated and titled on the right side 'Emile Antoine Bourdelle 1909 Melancolie', inscribed on the back 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris'--bronze with dark green and gold patina
Height: 22 3/8in. (56.8cm.)
Original version executed in 1909; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of eight with two artist's proofs
Mélancolie
signed, dated and titled on the right side 'Emile Antoine Bourdelle 1909 Melancolie', inscribed on the back 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris'--bronze with dark green and gold patina
Height: 22 3/8in. (56.8cm.)
Original version executed in 1909; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of eight with two artist's proofs
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, Oct. 18, 1985, lot 14 (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
P. Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, p. 27 (another cast illustrated)
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 107, no. 413
P. Cannon-Brookes, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, an Illustrated Commentary, London, 1983, p. 50 (another cast illustrated, p. 54)
C. M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 204 (another cast illustrated)
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 107, no. 413
P. Cannon-Brookes, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, an Illustrated Commentary, London, 1983, p. 50 (another cast illustrated, p. 54)
C. M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 204 (another cast illustrated)