Antoine Bourdelle fights death with a relentless creation. 1927.

Antoine BOURDELLE (1861.1929)

Autograph letter signed to the architect Alfred Rome.

Two pages in-4°. Envelope.

[Paris]. May 8, 1927.

"I was sick, I was 3 years ago !" But since then I executed ... "

Having been struck with severe rheumatism, in 1924, which had slowed down his projects, Bourdelle was, in this spring 1927, exalted by his creations and by a thousand works to be set up around the world. Create to repel death.

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"... sick me, I was 3 years ago !" But since then I executed the bas-relief for the Marseille Opera. 12 meters . Since then, I completed the large dying centaur and exposed it in bronze.

I created and executed in 3 dimensions France keeps the memory of the free army of the United States of America . 1 ° Its small model 1 meter high. 2 ° The average model 4 meters high. Bronze at the Brooklyn Museum. UNITED STATES. 3 ° The model 9 meters high (bronze) with a variant. One for Paris, the other for Montauban.

This winter, I finished two -thirds of the monument during the Renaissance of Poland and its great poet Mickiewicz. I finish the stature seated by the Marquis de Solages.

I perform - 3 meters in size - bronze - the statue of the Grand Honoré Daumier for Marseille in front of the old port.

I started for the French government and to be placed in Paris the active statue of Viviani. One for Paris, in bronze, the other for Algiers, in marble.

I execute the monument commemoration medal to General Alvear. I executed the medal of the Hartmannswillerkopf monument - and 2 victories to keep the entrance to the crypt.

I execute the bust of Vincent d'Indy. One of a young girl, one of a young child, one of a young woman. That of Anatole France in marble.

I do 15 bas-relief to illustrate the demosthène of President Clemenceau.

I work at the 6 bas-reliefs of the base of the monument to Polish freedom.

I take the photos and the text for the publication of my work by the France bookstore.

Add the students to see twice by me. The drawings. Correspondence. Painting and weighs this activity.

I have a monument for Bolivia. One for Uruguay. I am in talks with Chile. Is it enough-and with Nicaragua.

And the monument of minors, Pierre, to finish and that I have to cut myself. My illness you see it is far away.

So I have too much work. »»

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The sculptor will go out on October 1, 1929, in Vésinet, in the house made available to him by his friend Eugène Rudier.