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The Bourdelle Museum Presents "Antoine Bourdelle ~ All Drawing"

artwork: Antoine Bourdelle - "Leda and the Swan", undated - Graphite pencil and watercolor on wove paper - 49.2 x 63.9 cm. Collection of and © Musée Bourdelle, Paris / Roger-Viollet. -  On view in "Antoine Bourdelle: All Drawing" until January 29th 2012.


Paris.- The Bourdelle Museum is pleased to present “Antoine Bourdelle: All Drawing” on view at the museum through January 29th 2012. Compelling and passionate, disciplined or an outlet, the daily practice and incessant drawing by Antoine Bourdelle (1861 – 1929) created a burgeoning graphic production. In this exhibition, the museum reveals the Bourdelle through the first major exhibition of drawings ever devoted to the sculptor, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth. Two hundred works, including many previously unpublished have been selected from among the nearly seven thousand contained in the museum’s collection. Together, these trace the artist’s path from 1875 to 1929, revealing, in his own words, “The essential part of the design in [his] life as an artist.” The exhibition does not present the works chronologically, but instead groups them according to their nature and intent that governed their creation. It provides access keys to the approach of Bourdelle as a designer, but also to his secret garden, lighting the multiple facets of both the artist and the work, which is incredibly prolific and varied, both in terms of style, themes, and techniques (pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolor and pastel).