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

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Description: Le bélier rétif
signed, inscribed and dated 'Le Bélier Rétif/Emile-Antoine Bourdelle/1909' (underneath), stamped with Alexis Rudier foundry mark (underneath)
bronze with dark brown patina
21 1/4 x 18 x 9in. (54 x 47 x 18cm.)
Conceived in 1909 and executed in an edition of 10

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Provenance: Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 23 October 1996, lot 183

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Published: E. Auricoste, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Paris 1955 (another cast illustrated pl.2)
I. Jianou & M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1965, p.93
C. Lavrillier & M. Dufet, Bourdelle et la critique de son temps, Paris, 1979 (another cast illustrated p.161)

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