Émile-Antoine BOURDELLE

Bronze with nuanced green brown patina, signed dated and monogrammed « SAPHO ANTOINE BOURDELLE 1887-1924  »
Cast by A.Rudier, bears the inscription « Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris », the number IV and the stamp « REPRODUCTION INTERDITE »
H. 27″
Circa 1926-1939

Provenance: private collection, Australia; sale Christie’s, New York, 16 may 1990, lot 331 ; private collection, Israël (acquired during this sale); sale, Christie’s, London, 3 February  2010, lot 409.
Handwritten source: documentation center of the musée d’Orsay, Bourdelle, file Sapho.
Literature: E.F. Julia, Antoine Bourdelle maître d’œuvre, Paris 1930, pages 43, 101; I. Jianou et M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris 1984, page 70, n° 59.

Exhibition: Mougins, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2024 (permanent collection).