Lot 342
  • 342

Aristide Maillol

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • Eve à la pomme
  • inscribed Aristide Maillol, numbered 2/6 and inscribed Alexis Rudier Fondeur 
  • bronze
  • height: 57.8cm., 22 3/4 in.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Galerie Umeda, Osaka (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

Literature

John Rewald, Maillol, New York, 1939, illustration of another cast pl. 76
Aristide Maillol (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1975-76, no. 24, illustration of another cast p. 50
Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol, Neuchatel, 1977, no. 64, illustration of another cast p. 64
Bernard Lorquin, Maillol, London, 1995, illustration of another cast p. 39

Condition

Lovely brown patina with subtle bronze tones. This work appears to be in very good overall condition.
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