Lot 131
  • 131

ARISTIDE MAILLOL | Baigneuse Renoir

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • Baigneuse Renoir
  • Inscribed with the artist's monogram and with the foundry mark .Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris. and numbered 3/6
  • Bronze 
  • Height: 8 1/8 in.
  • 20.6 cm
  • Conceived in 1907 and cast by the Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris.

Provenance

International Fine Art (Leslie Arky), Vancouver 
Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Steve Banks Fine Arts, San Francisco
Acquired from the above on March 16, 2000

Literature

Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, illustration of another cast p. 246

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Attractive green-black patina. There is some minor dust to the deeper crevices and some minor rubbing to the extreme edges of the bronze. There are a couple scattered losses to the patina on the back of the base. Otherwise, fine.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Olivier Lorquin.