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PROPERTY FROM THE HOLDINGS OF THE FORD FOUNDATION
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929)
Sappho, petite étude sans base, dite première composition
Details
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861-1929)
Sappho, petite étude sans base, dite première composition
signed with cypher, numbered twice, inscribed and stamped with foundry mark 'I A. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE V V © by Bourdelle' (on the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
10 ¾ x 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ in. (27.3 x 19.7 x 12 cm.)
Conceived in 1887.
Sappho, petite étude sans base, dite première composition
signed with cypher, numbered twice, inscribed and stamped with foundry mark 'I A. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE V V © by Bourdelle' (on the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
10 ¾ x 7 ¾ x 4 ¾ in. (27.3 x 19.7 x 12 cm.)
Conceived in 1887.
Provenance
with Slatkin Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 70, no. 59.