1925, France. WAR MEMORIAL AT HARTMANNSWILLERKOPF. By Antoine Bourdelle. Silvered-bronze 72mm. Cased. $350.

?mile-Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban in 1861. He was a painter, architect, and medallist, but is known primarily as a sculptor. He studied initially at the ?cole des Beaux Arts de Toulouse and was later accepted at the ?cole National des Beaux Arts de Paris and into the atlier of Falgi?re. He was widely regarded as one of the leading sculptors of his time and won many distinctions over the course of his career. Bourdelle died at Vesinet on October 1, 1929.