Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
Head of Apollo on a Square Base or Apollo in Battle, 1898-1909
Bronze proof with brown gilded patina
Sand-cast by Alexis Rudier, probably between 1913 and 1925
Founder’s signature (at the back of the base on the left): ALEXIS RUDIER FONDEUR PARIS
Signed and dated (on the left side of the base in a cartouche): EMILE ANTOINE BOURDELLE 1900
Note (in the lower part of the cartouche): REPRODUCTION INTERDITE (Reproduction prohibited)
Monogrammed (under the right ear): B
67.3 x 23.7 x 28.2 cm
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
Mask of a Sleeping Child, known as With Architecture, 1905
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
with the ceramicist Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927)
Mask of a Sleeping Child, known as With Architecture, 1905
Proof in green flambé glazed stoneware
On the back:
—signed in ink: Émile-Antoine Bourdelle / Stoneware by Bigot
—the vestiges of a torn-off sticker
—587 (carved into the stoneware)
—a sticker from the Czech customs with missing letters: “ptzollamt Prag,” a fragment of Hauptzollamt Prag, which was the main customs office in Prague. In addition, a “K” can be detected, but the second “K” is missing (see the sticker on a Rodin: for K(aiserlich) K(öniglisches))
H. 20.5, W. 19, D. 9 cm
H. 8.07, W. 7.48, D. 3.54 in
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
Leda and the Swan, c. 1919
Watercolor
Inscribed : A monsieur Chautard avec tous remerciements Bourdelle (To Monsieur Chautard with all my thanks Bourdelle)
Inscribed : Mythe de Léda (Myth of Leda) and Bourdelle’s monogram
H: 51.5, W: 32 cm
