Antoine BOURDELLE

Exceptional set of archives from the Rudier foundry: a manuscript register of castings (45 leaves and 8 loose leaves) and a set of 11 original silver print photographs. Housed in a box covered with a decorative paper. Register bound in a cloth, first cover detached; consolidated with a re-used cover from an insurance company sheet. Numerous tears on the covers, tears on a few pages not affecting the text, a few pages loose.
Extremely rare documents, to our knowledge unique set of archives to have survived the destruction of the molds and records of the Rudier foundry in 1952. The only other archives known to date only concern castings commissioned by the Rodin M

(COLLECTIVE WORK) Antoine BOURDELLE illustrated by Auguste RODIN
& Jean SAUDÉ & Georges LEPAPE & Marguerite BEAUZEE-REYNAUD
& Géo DORIVAL & SEM & BRUNETTA & BENEDICTUS & HALOUZE

Traité d'enluminure d'art au pochoir
First edition, one of 440 numbered copies, the only printing after 60 copies with supplements, our copy signed by the author on the justification page.
Notes by Antoine Bourdelle, Sem and Lucien Descaves.
Illustrated with 18 in-text pochoir illustrations and 14 demonstrative figures in black and w

Illustrated edition of 4 unpublished drawings by Antoine Bourdelle, Berthold Mann and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, one of the present examples serving as a press service.
Precious autograph signed by Claude Aveline to Paul Valéry.
Provenance: from the library of Max-Philippe Delatte with his ex-libris glued below the autograph.