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Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE ( 1861 - 1929 )

BEETHOVEN A LA COLONNE aux yeux fermés (1901)

Studio plaster known as "à bon creux" signed in relief "Bourdelle" in the mould.
H : 62,4 cm, L : 32 cm, D : 28,3 cm
Artist example detailled on the base front with autogrpah writing '"Moi, je suis Bacchus... le nectar délicieux, Beethoven", dedicated on the base on the left  " A Mlle Henriette Charasson, très sympathiquement, E.A.Bourdelle", example reworked by him (with letters by the sculptor for the commission).
Made in 1910
 
 

Emile-Antoine BOURDELLE