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Le fruit
Details
Emile Antoine-Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Le fruit
inscribed with artist's cypher, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'II A VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE © By Bourdelle' (on the back of the base)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1906-1911; this bronze version cast at a later date
Le fruit
inscribed with artist's cypher, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'II A VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE © By Bourdelle' (on the back of the base)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1906-1911; this bronze version cast at a later date
Provenance
Galerie Nichido, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982.
Literature
A. Fontainas, Bourdelle, Paris, 1930, pl. 8 (detail of another cast illustrated).
P. Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, pl. 42 (another cast illustrated).
M. Seuphor, La sculpture de ce siècle, Neuchâtel, 1959, p. 47 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 97, no. 324 (large bronze version illustrated, pl. 23).
P. Cannon-Brookes, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, London, 1983, p. 41, no. 60 (another cast illustrated).
C.M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 119).
P. Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, pl. 42 (another cast illustrated).
M. Seuphor, La sculpture de ce siècle, Neuchâtel, 1959, p. 47 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 97, no. 324 (large bronze version illustrated, pl. 23).
P. Cannon-Brookes, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, London, 1983, p. 41, no. 60 (another cast illustrated).
C.M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221 (large bronze version illustrated, p. 119).