La vierge à l’offrande

Details

Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
La vierge à l’offrande
signed and marked with cypher 'ANTOINE BOURDELLE' (on the back of the base); dated '11 Avril' (on the underside)
white marble
Height: 26 ½ in. (67.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1920

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Brace, Kansas City.
The William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City; sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 November 1992, lot 111.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

Literature

I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, pp. 37 and 108 (stone version illustrated, pl. 54).
I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 130, no. 624.
C.M. Lavrillier and M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1992, p. 221 (monumental bronze version illustrated, pl. 85).

Exhibited

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, The Whitehead Collection, Late 19th and 20th Century French Masters, A Collection in Progress, April-May 1997, p. 100, no. 63 (illustrated in color, p. 101).

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Lot Essay

According to Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle, this sculpture is a study for the monument measuring almost twenty feet high in Niederbruch, Alsace, which the sculptor completed in 1922. The artist also modelled a smaller version in clay, from which a bronze was cast between 1920–1970.

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