Updated 02 May 2024
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Bust of Anatole France
| Date | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | bronze |
| Size（cm） | 71 x 47 x 34 |
| Inscriptions | Signed, dated and titled with monogram lower left back: Anatole France / par Antoine Bourdelle / 1919 / AB; Foundry mark lower left back: Alexis. Roudier/ Fondeur. Paris |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1216 |
| Category | Sculptures |
| Collection Number | S.1959-0054 |
Provenance
Ordered from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. May 1921 (Fr. 15,000) [see letter from Bénédite to Emille Bourdelle, dated 14 May 1921, in Archives of Musée Bourdelle, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.
Exhibition History
- 1968
- Bourdelle, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 1968 - 25 August 1968, Kyoto National Museum, 8 September – 27 October 1968, cat. no. 79
- 1987
- Bourdelle/Dufet , Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 12 September 1987 - 23 November 1987, cat. no. 51, repr.
- 1988
- Modern Japanese Sculpture: Encounter with the West, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 3 November 1988 - 18 December 1988, cat. no. 63, repr.
- 1996
- The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 111
Bibliography
- 1987
- Bourdelle/Dufet (exh. cat.). Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation, 1987, pp. 90-94, 179, cat. no. 51, repr.
- 1988
- Modern Japanese Sculpture: Encounter with the West (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1988, pp. 103, 184-185, 221, cat. no. 63, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-2.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1216, col. repr.