Antiquity: Centaur With a Genius

Prints and Drawings

1911/18

Emile Antoine Bourdelle
French, 1861-1929

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
Title: Antiquity: Centaur With a Genius
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1911–1918
Medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in brush and brown watercolor: "Antoine Bourdelle" and monogram (star); inscribed, lower right, in pen and brown ink, discolored to purple: "Temps antique / centaure avec un genie 2e étude / a.L. Beneditte / Antoine Bourdelle, bien cordialement"
Dimensions: 40.4 × 51.3 cm (15 15/16 × 20 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1930.322

Chicago, Arts Club, October 17, 1929-April 2, 1930.
Chicago, Arts Club, May 5-June 21, 1932.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Century of Progress Exhibition,” June 1–November 1, 1933.

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