The Fruit

The Fruit, sculpted in 1906, is the renowned work of Antoine Bourdelle. The statue is an anatomical study of a nude female. She stands confidently, with fruit cupped in her right hand, her left arm bent behind and her ankles crossed. A chaste voluptuousness emerges from this young body.

Gallery

The Fruit, in the Musée Bourdelle
Torso of Fruit, 1911, Trammell Crow Center, Dallas, Texas

References

Dossier de l'Art N° 10, January/February 1993
Bourdelle, by Ionel Jianou and Michel Dufet Edition Arted 1970
Cléopâtre Bourdelle-Sevastos, Ma vie avec Bourdelle, Paris-Musées and Editions des Cendres, 2005 (ISBN 2-87900-938-3)

Antoine Bourdelle

Artworks	Hercules the Archer Monument aux Morts de Montauban The Fruit

Friends	Eugène Rudier André Suarès

Contemporary sculptors	Henry Arnold Louis Dejean Léon-Ernest Drivier Alfred Jean Halou Charles Malfray Auguste de Niederhausern François Pompon Jane Poupelet Yvonne Serruys Robert Wlérick

Teachers	Auguste Rodin Alexandre Falguière

Pupils	Athanase Apartis Alberto Giacometti Angela Gregory René Iché Raoul Josset Aristide Maillol Henri Matisse Constantin Papachristopoulos Germaine Richier Josefina de Vasconcellos Maria Elena Vieira da Silva

Museums	Musée Bourdelle Jardin-musée Bourdelle d'Égreville Musée Ingres

Style	Romanticism

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