Poster Auctions International, Inc: Poster High: Lot 128
Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs.
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One of the all-time great sculptors-France is replete with approximately 1,000 of his statues and monumental designs-Bourdelle briefly sets down the chisel and hammer long enough to render this spectacular bronze-tined promotion for the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts under the auspices of France's Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Embracing industrial and modern design as well as the purely decorative, Bourdelle-whose lithographic sensibilities are no less epic or mythic than his sculptural-recognizes that it takes both genius and hard work to create a masterpiece. The future influential sculptor-even the legendary Auguste Rodin was a great admirer of his work-left school at the age of thirteen to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop. He would go on to learn drawing with the founder of the Ingres Museum in Montauban, then sculpture in Toulouse and finally he would win a scholarship to
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