Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)

Etude pour Tête d'Héraclès

Details
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Etude pour Tête d'Héraclès
signed, inscribed with the artist's monogram and inscribed with foundry mark 'ANT.BOURDELLE Alexis Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 16½ in. (41.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1909; this bronze version cast by 1952
Provenance
Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 105, no. 396 (another version illustrated, pl. 31).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Héraklès Archer: Naissance d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1992, p. 73, no. 16 (another cast illustrated, p. 39).

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