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PIERRE BOURDELLE wonders how long he must live, or how much reputation he must acquire to escape being introduced as the son of Antione Emil Bourdelle, famous French Sculptor and protegé of Rodin. Perhaps Pierre Bourdelle's unwillingness to bask in reflected glory is responsible for his studious avoidance of three-dimensional sculpture and his original application of relief sculpture to new media. For example, the murals currently exhibited are carved in linoleum, painted and lacquered. At the Texas Centennial Bourdelle produced heroic subjects covering 37,000 square feet executed in pigmented cement carved during early hardening. A major project in process at the New York World's Fair covers an area of 10,000 square feet and is of such magnitude that when completed it will represent over one year's work on location.

Born in Paris, in 1901, Pierre Bourdelle is a naturalized American citizen. The work exhibited, while it reveals sympathetic and sentimental understanding of New York, is earmarked with éclat unmistakably French. Highly conventionalized and decorative, these murals capture the tempo, tribulation, exuberance and exultation of the City. They are destined to decorate the lobbies of the new apartment buildings at 3 East 69th and 4 East 70th Street which replace the former Marshall Field residence.

George Washington Bridge
Chinatown Festival
Ice Skating at Rockefeller Plaza
Queensborough Bridge
Central Park Plaza
Central Park Zoo
Fulton Fish Market 
Circus on Broadway
Library Steps
Statue of Liberty

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Pierre shouldn't feel too bad; his papa was not that famous that the press release could spell his name right: *Antione instead of Antoine, Rodin *protegé or not. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-06 17:06:45 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-14 15:39:08