Monument aux Morts de Montauban [SEP] creator
Monument aux Morts de Montauban
The Monument aux Morts de Montauban is an 1894 sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle. His romantic vision of the monument generated many violent oppositions. Auguste Rodin's intervention in 1897 enabled Bourdelle to do this sculpture without any compromise. The monument was erected in Montauban, in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, in 1902.
Bibliography.
- "Dossier de l'Art" N° 10 de January/February 1993
- "Bourdelle" by Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet Edition Arted 1970
Commander of the Legion of Honor.
Work.
- Spandrel reliefs for the portal of the Musée Grévin, Paris, 1900
- The "Monument aux Morts de Montauban", 1902
- "The Fruit", 1906
- The freestanding gilded bronze "Hercules the Archer", 1909
- The decorative series of friezes executed for the exterior of Auguste Perret's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913). Although the building itself is famously an early example of concrete construction, the friezes are marble.