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Aristide Maillol
Description
- Aristide Maillol
- Le Monument à Claude Debussy
- Inscribed A. Maillol, labeled epreuve d'artiste and inscribed with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris
- Bronze
- Height: 35 1/2 in.
- 90.2 cm
Provenance
Acquired from the above in 1988
Literature
John Rewald, Maillol, New York, 1939, no. 113 illustration of the stone version p. 113
Andrew C. Ritchie (ed.), Aristide Maillol, with an Introduction and Survey of the Artist’s Work in American Collections (exhibition catalogue), Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1945, no. 36, illustration of another cast p. 94
John Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1950, illustration of the stone version pl. 49
Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, no. 198, illustration of another cast p. 198
Bertrand Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, New York, 1995, illustration of another example p. 95
Urrsel Berger & Jörg Zutter, Aristide Maillol, Munich & New York, 1996, no.83, illustration of the plaster p.52 and the marble version p. 140
Catalogue Note
In his monograph on the artist, John Rewald wrote: "To celebrate the human body, particularly the feminine body, seems to have been Maillol's only aim. He did this in a style from which all grandiloquence is absent, a style almost earthbound and grave. The absence of movement, however, is compensated by a tenderness and charm distinctively his own; and while all agitation is foreign to his art, there is in his work, especially in his small statuettes, such quiet grace and such warm feeling that they never appear inanimate. He has achieved a peculiar balance between a firmness of forms which appear eternal and a sensitivity of expression – even sensuousness – which seems forever quivering and alive" (J. Rewald, Maillol, New York, 1958, pp. 6-7).