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Antoine Bourdelle: Herakles
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Herakles

sculpture by Bourdelle
Also known as: “Hercules Archer”
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  • Bourdelle, Antoine: Dying Centaur
    Antoine Bourdelle

    …triumph in the Salon with Herakles (also called Hercules Archer), which again owes much to Archaic art, although the pose is far more sinuous and the musculature more exaggerated; he made several sculptures of this subject. Also in 1910 he created the full-length portrait Rodin at Work, the head of…

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    …triumph in the Salon with Herakles (also called Hercules Archer), which again owes much to Archaic art, although the pose is far more sinuous and the musculature more exaggerated; he made several sculptures of this subject. Also in 1910 he created the full-length portrait Rodin at Work, the head of…

    Read More