ANTOINE BOURDELLE (FRENCH 1861-1929)

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• Lot Description
  ANTOINE BOURDELLE (FRENCH 1861-1929)
  La Rieuse, 1903
  bronze with medium brown patina
  height without base: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
  inscribed on verso Bourdelle Sculpt, foundry stamp Cire Perdue AA Hebrard on verso, from an edition of 10
  
  PROVENANCE
  Sotheby`s New York, March 25, 2010, lot 8
  
  Sold with a copy of a letter from Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle of the Musee Bourdelle, Paris, confirming the authenticity of the present lot.
  
  LITERATURE
  Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1978, no. 295, p. 96.
  
  LOT NOTES
  According to Colin Lemoine at Musee Bourdelle, this work is a bust study for the sculpture Rire et rose.
  
  LOT NOTES
  In 1893, a few years after Antoine Bourdelle completed his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, Bourdelle accepted a position as Auguste Rodin`s assistant, with whom he continued to work for fifteen years until 1908. The present lot, La Rieuse was created while the artist still worked in Rodin`s studio. The sculptors had a mutual sense of admiration, and yet Bourdelle once said I recognize myself as an antidisciple of Rodin. My syntheses are all directly opposed to the laws that govern his work. Rodin had recognized this fiercely independent quality early on, and had once referred to Bourdelle as a bull entering the arena.
  
  Even while he worked as Rodin`s senior assistant, the young sculptor began to attract tremendously talented students, among them Henri Matisse, only eight years Bourdelle`s junior. Once Bourdelle began to focus his efforts on his own studio, however, his talent and reputation continued to draw young artists, and in fact, Alberto Giacometti moved to Paris in order to study under the master.
  
  Soon after leaving Rodin`s studio, in 1909 Bourdelle was named Knight of the Legion of Honor, eventually progressing to Officer of the Legion of Honor, and finally a receiving the honor of being named the Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1924. Continuing to gather accolades on an international level, Bourdelle exhibited at the seminal 1913 Armory Show in New York, alongside Kandinsky, Duchamp and Leger.
  
  Since his passing in 1929, Bourdelle`s studio in the 15th arrondissement of Paris has become a museum, the Musee Bourdelle, focused on preserving the sculptor`s artistic legacy. Of sculpture, Bourdelle said you must create, between yourself and you object, a stronger and stronger bond... always remembering this truth that the object is not found in the model but in ourselves. This sort of operation cannot be forced because it requires on our part something that comes from the depths of our soul: emotion.
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