Details
EMILE ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1881-1929)
Bacchante portant Eros
signed, marked with cipher, inscribed and numbered on the back of the base A. Bourdelle SUSSE FONDEURS PARIS CIRE PERDUE IV--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 1/8 in. (58.8 cm.)
Original version executed in 1923; this bronze version cast ; number four in an edition of seven?
Bacchante portant Eros
signed, marked with cipher, inscribed and numbered on the back of the base A. Bourdelle SUSSE FONDEURS PARIS CIRE PERDUE IV--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 1/8 in. (58.8 cm.)
Original version executed in 1923; this bronze version cast ; number four in an edition of seven?
Provenance
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, June 19, 1980, lot 4 Estudio Actual, Caracas (acquired by the present owner, Sept., 1980)
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, June 19, 1980, lot 4 Estudio Actual, Caracas (acquired by the present owner, Sept., 1980)
Literature
Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, p. 84 (another cast illustrated)
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, 1975,
p. 134, no. 651
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, 1975,
p. 134, no. 651
Exhibited
Basel, Kunsthalle