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ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929) NOSTALGIA OR WOMAN'S HEAD, CIRCA 1909 Original plaster Signed "Bourdelle" and inscribed "Offert à Diriks par l'artiste" on the back Plaster; original model; signed "Bourdelle" and inscribed "Offert à Diriks par l'artiste" on the reverse 30 cm - 11 3/4 in. Madame Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle confirmed the authenticity of this work in 1991. The copy of a letter, dated May 17, 1991, will be given to the buyer. She indicates that this head "is not that of [her] mother but that of the concierge of N° 7 ter of the impasse du Maine, today rue Antoine Bourdelle". PROVENANCE Collection of the painter Dyre Diriks (1894-1976), son of Karl-Edvard Diriks (1855-1930) and cousin of Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Then by descent. Private collection, France. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Arted, Paris: 1965, two bronze proofs, coll. Mme Staal, Paris and coll. Eugène Lapic, and another plaster, Lycée Henri IV, Paris, p. 93 (described).
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ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929) NOSTALGIA OR WOMAN'S HEAD, CIRCA 1909 Original plaster Signed "Bourdelle" and inscribed "Offert à Diriks par l'artiste" on the back Plaster; original model; signed "Bourdelle" and inscribed "Offert à Diriks par l'artiste" on the reverse 30 cm - 11 3/4 in. Madame Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle confirmed the authenticity of this work in 1991. The copy of a letter, dated May 17, 1991, will be given to the buyer. She indicates that this head "is not that of [her] mother but that of the concierge of N° 7 ter of the impasse du Maine, today rue Antoine Bourdelle". PROVENANCE Collection of the painter Dyre Diriks (1894-1976), son of Karl-Edvard Diriks (1855-1930) and cousin of Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Then by descent. Private collection, France. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Bourdelle, Arted, Paris: 1965, two bronze proofs, coll. Mme Staal, Paris and coll. Eugène Lapic, and another plaster, Lycée Henri IV, Paris, p. 93 (described).
