LOT DETAILS
Materials:
bronze with green patina
Measurements:
61.02 in. (155.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width) by 42.13 in. (107.00 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
signed with the monogram (on top of the plinth); numbered '3 / 6' (on the back of the plinth); stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back of the base)
Exhibited:
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Maillol, June - September 1978, no. 59 (illustrated). Perpignan, Palais des Rois de Majorque, Maillol au Palais des Rois de Majorque, 1979, no. 77, p. 194 (illustrated p. 118). Stuttgart, Galerie Valentien, Aristide Maillol, Bronzeskulpturen, July - September 1980, p. 23 (illustrated p. 24). Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Aristide Maillol, January - May 1996, no. 76, p. 213 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, May - September 1996; Bremen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, October 1996 - January 1997; and Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, January - March 1997.
Literature:
C. Zervos, 'Aristide Maillol', in L'Art d'Aujourd'hui, 1925 (another cast illustrated pl. XL). J. Cladel, Maillol, sa vie, son œuvre, ses idées, Paris, 1937, p. 118 (another cast illustrated p. 37). J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, p. 165 (plaster version illustrated pl. 47). R. Linnenkamp, Maillol. Die grossen Plastiken, Munich, 1960, pp. 14-35. G. Bresc-Bautier, A. Pingeot & A. Le Normand-Romain, Sculptures des jardins du Louvre, du Caroussel et des Tuileries, Paris, 1986, no. 245 (another cast illustrated p. 293). B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, London, 1995, p. 84 (another cast illustrated p. 85). R. Franke, 'Figuren von klassichem Ebenmaß', in Berliner Morgenpost, 14 January 1996 (illustrated). C. Herchenröder, 'Deutschem Geschmack verbunden', in Handelsblatt, 19-20 January 1996 (illustrated). K. Hansel, 'Klassisch-moderne Plastiken', in Brandenburgisches Sonntagsblatt, 25 February 1996 (illustrated).
Provenance:
Dina Vierny, by 1979. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980.