Émile-Antoine BOURDELLE. L.A.S., Paris April 12, 1920, to art critic Louis Vauxcelles; 2 pages small in-4. About his bust of Anatole France. For "reasons of combat with busts whose direction, the road of Art without a future, displeases me", he sends to the exhibition, outside the catalog, "the naked effigy - direct - of the Master of Letters Anatole France - effigy - on the bottom of which he wanted to engrave his name with his own hand. - As I believe that in addition to the human substance - which we have learned from Dalou and Rodin to highlight in stone - we must also take into account the sense of unity of the block - and also - the sense of attachment of the details of this block to light and space - I have for my faith as an artist and for the struggle that all young people support with me - added [...] the nude effigy"... This new shipment will be behind the Mickiewicz...