Parisian Eric Tenin (eric@parisdailyphoto.com) publishes one of Levitated Apple's favourite weblogs - ParisDailyPhoto - and we urge you to discover it. Recently, he posted a tip about a lesser-known museum that visitors to the city should not miss.
It's le Musée Antoine Bourdelle, named for a contemporary of Auguste Rodin. It's a great place, he says, if you like sculpture and the venue is fantastic too.
Exhibits range from traditional to modern style but are universally excellent.
Shown here is a bust of Madeleine Charnaux - one of the first French female airplane pilots - made with three different materials (two in bronze and one in resin).To see more examples, search out Eric at ParisDailyPhoto or hop on a plane and head for: Musée Antoine Bourdelle, 16, rue Antoine Bourdelle (15) . Tel: 01 49 54 73 81/82. Métro Montparnasse-Bienvenüe/Falguière (Open Tuesday - Sunday 10h to 17h, Closed Monday)
Antoine Bourdelle left school at the age of thirteen to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet making shop.
He learned drawing with the founder of the Ingres Museum in Montauban, then sculpture at the art school in Toulouse.
At the age of twenty-four he won a scholarship to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Subsequently, he became one of the pioneers of Twentieth Century monumental sculpture.
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