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

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Description: Baigneuse accroupie au rocher
signed with the monogram, numbered and inscribed '© by Bourdelle EA2' (on the right side); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Susse Frères Paris' (on the back)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 19 3/8 in. (49 cm.)
Conceived in 1906-1907; this bronze version cast in 1991

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Provenance: Mme Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle, Paris.
Galerie Jean-Jacques Dutko, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in December 2000.

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Published: P. Descargues, Bourdelle, Paris, 1954, p. 28.
E. Auricoste, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, 1955, pl. 1 (illustrated).
I. Jianou & M. Dufet, Bourdelle, Paris, 1984, no. 341, p. 99.

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