Live Auction 3737Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper Including Property from the John C. Whitehead Collection
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Lot 1033 PROPERTY FROM THE JOHN C. WHITEHEAD COLLECTION

Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)

La vierge à l’offrande

Closed15 May 2015

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Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
La vierge à l’offrande
signed and marked with cypher 'ANTOINE BOURDELLE' (on the back of the base); dated '11 Avril' (on the underside)
white marble
Height: 26 ½ in. (67.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1920

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Brace, Kansas City.
The William Rockhill Nelson Trust, Kansas City; sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 November 1992, lot 111.
Acquired at the above sale by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead.

Specialist note

According to Rhodia Dufet Bourdelle, this sculpture is a study for the monument measuring almost twenty feet high in Niederbruch, Alsace, which the sculptor completed in 1922. The artist also modelled a smaller version in clay, from which a bronze was cast between 1920–1970.