Word: actaeon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the 40 works by this artist who is considered one of the greatest of living sculptors, which have been collected for this exhibition. It is difficult to pick out any one of two as particularly noteworthy. Certainly the most imposing are the two large statutes: Diana and Actaeon; yet it is in a small bronze the Dancer and Gazelles that the sculptor seems to have reached the peak of his art. There is a grace and skill in the composition and execution, a fragile beauty which leaves one almost in doubt whether such a thing can be done...