A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Emile Antoine Bourdelle
La Victoire, tête avec épaules, étude pour le Monument au Général Alvear (1913-1923)
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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle
1861 - 1929
La Victoire, tête avec épaules, étude pour le Monument au Général Alvear (1913-1923)
inscribed Antoine-Bourdelle and stamped with the foundry mark Alexis. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. (on the shoulders); inscribed Bourdelle and Pierrot Rose Cleopatra (on the head)
bronze
height: 36 in. 91.4 cm.
Conceived in 1918; this example cast circa 1930 as one of two known casts.
This work is being offered for sale from an offsite location and is not at Sotheby’s York Avenue location. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Juliette Saylor at Juliette.Saylor@sothebys.com
Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Monaco, 25 November 1979, lot 50
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Marcel Pays, Antoine Bourdelle, vol. VI, Paris, 1923, illustrated of another cast on the cover
Pierre Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, p. 69, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p. 105, pl. 60, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1978, no. 594, p. 125, pl. 60, illustration of another cast
Carol Marc Lavrillier and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221