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Artist or Maker: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)

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Description: Etude pour Hamlet
signed, inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'E. BOURDELLE II VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the right side of the base)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 14 in. (35.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1891; this bronze version cast at a later date

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Provenance: Mme Bourdelle, Paris (by descent from the artist).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, circa 1960s.

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Published: I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 67, no. 13 (larger version illustrated, no. 43).