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Emile-Antoine Bourdelle



 

Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
 

(b Montauban, 30 Oct 1861; d Le Vésinet, nr Paris, 1 Oct 1929).

French sculptor, painter and draughtsman. After working with his father, a cabinetmaker, in 1876 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. In 1884 he was admitted as a pupil of Alexandre Falguière to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but in rebellion against academic training left two years later. He then moved into a house (now the Musée Bourdelle) in the Impasse du Maine; Jules Dalou, for whom he had the greatest admiration, lived near by.

 

Relief Theatre des Champs Elysees Paris
1913