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

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Description: Etude pour Tête d'Héraclès
signed, inscribed with the artist's monogram and inscribed with foundry mark 'ANT.BOURDELLE Alexis Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1909; this bronze version cast by 1952

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Provenance: Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, LLC, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Published: I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1975, p. 105, no. 396 (another version illustrated, pl. 31).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Héraklès Archer: Naissance d'une oeuvre, Paris, 1992, p. 73, no. 16 (another cast illustrated, p. 39).