Background
Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban, October 30, 1861.
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A powerful archer leans back, bracing his muscular legs against a rock. He lines his arms and squints at his target. He releases and lets the arrow soar over the rocks.He clutches his tall bow, which arches over him. His back leg bends firmly, grinding into the ground. The detail is in his sculpted muscles. You can see the cut of his stomach, arms and thighs. 100% bronze and handmade, this brown patina sculpture was cast using the "Lost Wax Method" and mounted on a black marble base and is signed émile-antoine bourdelle.
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Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban, October 30, 1861.
He studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and at the E´coleEacole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris with Jean Falguière and Jules Dalou, before becoming the favorite pupil and collaborator of François Rodin.
Gifted with tremendous artistic vitality, Bourdelle too often employed his powers in such outworn forms and ideas as the pseudo-Gothic Virgin of Alsace (1922) and the forced distortion of the Dying Centaur (1914). Bourdelle revealed his real strength as a sculptor when disciplined by specific problems. Thus he seems most effective in the intelligent characterizations of his portraits, e. g. , Anatole France (1919), his able solution of the equestrian statue in the Monument to Alvear (Buenos Aires), and the effective coordination of sculpture with architecture in the beautiful ensemble of reliefs for the Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris) or the Thaeatre (Marseille). Bourdelle died at Vesinet, October 1, 1929.
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