Lot Essay
Sold with a photo-certificate from Mme C. Bourdelle dated le 20 juin 1967. Paris.
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GEORGE GREGSON
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Adam (Premier état)
Details
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Adam (Premier état)
signed and dated 'Bourdelle E 89' (on the side), inscribed 'c BY BOURDELLE', numbered '4' and with the foundry stamp 'E. Godard Cire Perdue' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
25½in. (65 cm.) high
Conceived in 1888-1889 and cast in a numbered edition of ten. This bronze proof cast in 1966-67.
Adam (Premier état)
signed and dated 'Bourdelle E 89' (on the side), inscribed 'c BY BOURDELLE', numbered '4' and with the foundry stamp 'E. Godard Cire Perdue' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
25½in. (65 cm.) high
Conceived in 1888-1889 and cast in a numbered edition of ten. This bronze proof cast in 1966-67.
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1967.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 1967.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 1967.
Literature
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p. 73 (detail of a plaster cast illustrated pl. 24).
J. Daveleze, La Fougue d'Antoine Bourdelle, Aux écoutes du Monde, Paris, 14-20 June 1967 (illustrated p.46).
C. M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la Critique de son Temps, Paris, 1979 (another cast illustrated p. 40).
J. Daveleze, La Fougue d'Antoine Bourdelle, Aux écoutes du Monde, Paris, 14-20 June 1967 (illustrated p.46).
C. M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la Critique de son Temps, Paris, 1979 (another cast illustrated p. 40).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Antoine Bourdelle, June 1967.
Arizona, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, The George Gregson Collection, Jan-March 1969 (illustrated p. 81).
Arizona, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, The George Gregson Collection, Jan-March 1969 (illustrated p. 81).