Lot 390
  • 390

Aristide Maillol

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • Baigneuse debout
  • inscribed Aristide Maillol and inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur, Paris
  • bronze
  • height: 66.3cm., 26⅛in.

Provenance

Dina Vierny, Paris,
Private Collection, Switzerland
Paul Drey Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 11th May 2000, lot 72
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 

Exhibited

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art ; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Art Institute; San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Los Angeles, County Museum & Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Original Pieces of Sculpture by Aristide Maillol, 1958-60, no. 10
Tokyo, Musée National d'Art Occidental, Maillol, 1963, no. 5, illustration of another cast (titled as La Femme au chignon)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), 1975, no. 35, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

John Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, illustration of another cast p. 72
George Waldemar, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, illustration of another cast p. 130
Aristide Maillol (exhibition catalogue), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 1996, no. 34, pp. 188-9 and illustration of another cast p. 92

Condition

Dark golden brown patina, with minor signs of rubbing to the figure's hair, hands, breasts, knees, interior of the legs and in certain places on the base. There are some minor abrasions to the patina visible on the base. There are traces of surface dirt in the crevices. Otherwise this work is in good condition.
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