List Of Works By Antoine Bourdelle

The following is an incomplete list of artworks by the French artist Antoine Bourdelle.

Antoine Bourdelle (31 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor, painter, and teacher. His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.

In 1905, he mounted an exhibition of his work at the Galerie Hébrard in Paris, showing 38 sculptures, 18 paintings and 21 drawings. The sculptures included ''La Nonne'' from 1888 as well as the ''Head of Apollo'' and his ''Great Tragic Mask of Beethoven''. Bourdelle's father died in 1906 and in 1909 he left Rodin's studio. The year 1910, saw his ''Héraklès tue les oiseaux du lac Stymphale'' of 1909 shown at the Salon and this was a huge success! A version of this work is held in the Musée d'Orsay. Whilst working as a sculptor he also taught at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse, his pupils including Alberto Giacometti, Aristide Maillol, René Iché and Germaine Richier. 1910 also saw his divorce from Stéphanie Van Parys and in 1911 Rhodia Bourdelle was born to him and Cléopâtre Sévastos. In 1913 an exhibition of modern art in New York included his ''Héraklès'' and ''Tête d’Apollon'', the commission for the monument to Genéral Alvéar in Argentina was formalized and he carried out the sculptures for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. He founded and was vice president of the Salon des Tuileries.''Emile Antoine Bourdelle'' by Peter Cannon-Brookes. Trefoil Books Ltd. .

Many works by Bourdelle can be seen in the Musée Bourdelle- ''Buste de Beethoven'', ''Adam'', ''Le bélier rétif'', ''Centaure mourant'', ''La Liberté'' and ''Vierge à l'enfant''. From 1922 to 1923 he worked on ''La Vierge à l’offrande'' and completed the maquette for ''La France''. He also completed ''La Naissance d’Aphrodite'' for the Marseille Opera House. In 1925 he exhibited at the Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs showing ''Sappho'', ''Le Livre'' and ''Masque de Bourdelle'' in the Pavillon du livre. 1926 finally saw his Alvéar monument inaugurated after 10 years of work and a version of ''La France'' was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. 1928 saw a retrospective exhibition to celebrate the inauguration of the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts and 1929, the year of his death, saw the Monument to Adam Mickiewicz inaugurated. Bourdelle died on the 1 October 1929 at Vésinet whilst a guest of the founder Rudier. In 1931 there was a great retrospective of Bourdelle's work at the Paris Orangerie. He is buried in Montparnasse cemetery. In 1924 he had been made Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Légion d'honneur.

War memorials

Apart from the war memorials mentioned above Bourdelle also worked on a ''"Monument aux Députés morts pour La France"'', a memorial honouring the Deputies who had died in the 1914–18 war. He was keen on placing the memorial in the central niche of the Salle du Roi in the Palais Bourbon, a room dominated by Delacroix' paintings and designed the memorial so as not to clash with these works. The female figure in the statue, said to be based on Isadora Duncan, held a huge short sword and held aloft a round shell of the type carried by Greek hoplites. The piece was called ''"La Victoir du Droit"''. Bourdelle completed the maquette, the intention being that the final marble statue would be 3.25m high. The project was not pursued by the French State.

Bourdelle's 1922/23 ''La Vierge à l'Offrande'' or ''Vierge à l'Enfant'' in grey chauvigny limestone at Niederbruck

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