Lot 422
  • 422

ARISTIDE MAILLOL | Étude pour "Le Monument à Paul Cézanne"

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • Étude pour "Le Monument à Paul Cézanne"
  • Inscribed A Maillol, numbered 1/2 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
  • Bronze
  • Length: 12 1/4 in.
  • 31.1 cm
  • Conceived in 1912-25 and cast in an edition of 2 in the early 1930s by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris.

Provenance

Dina Vierny, Paris
C&M Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in 2000

Literature

Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol et l’âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1964, illustration of another cast p. 171

Condition

Burnished golden-brown patina. Some dust in the deepest crevices. Spots of verdigris under the figure's proper left arm and to her proper left shoulder. A single pindot scratch to the patina of the figure's stomach. Otherwise, fine. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the late Dina Vierny.