Mural by Pierre Bourdelle. This piece was actually sculpted in relief and painted for one of the Food Buildings at the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940. As I understand Bourdelle employed a number of assistants to complete this work.
Pierre painted/sculpted and designed many different murals in his bold style for many years. He also enjoyed experimenting in using more unusual sorts of materials in which to execute his work.
His father was a well known sculptor;Antoine Bourdelle, who was also an apprentice/assistant of Rodin at one time in his career.
Included here are two scans from Collier's magazine for January 28,1939, concerning Bourdelle and this particular mural.
