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This major exhibition re-establishes the eternal dialogue between Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), twenty years his senior.
Bourdelle worked for fifteen years as a practitioner in charge of carving marbles for Rodin. The master saw in this unruly heir a “scout of the future”.
Their parallel trajectories, their fraternity as well as their antagonisms created the major issues of modernity through more than 160 works, including 96 sculptures, 38 drawings, 3 paintings and 26 photographs.
The soul of the stone united their hearts fascinated by marble and this magnificent aesthetic of the unfinished.
Their art collections have this in common and express their insatiable curiosity for Greco-Roman antiquity, Egyptian, Hindu, Japanese and Persian works that inspired them and made them dream.
Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929)
Love of Centaurs
After 1912
Graphite pencil and watercolor on vellum paper Paris, Bourdelle Museum