Aristide Maillol
French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker known for serene classical female figures.
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Aristide Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker born December 8, 1861, in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon.[1][2] He died on September 27, 1944.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol
- Born
- 8 December 1861
- Birthplace
- Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon, France
- Died
- 27 September 1944
- Field
- Sculpture, painting
- Training
- École des Beaux-Arts
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
In July 1896, Maillol married Clotilde Narcis, an employee at his tapestry workshop.[3] He produced a second, less naturalistic version in 1905, believing that "art does not lie in the copying of nature".[4] Art dealer Ambroise Vollard provided Maillol with his first exhibition in 1902.[4] In 1881, Maillol relocated to Paris to pursue painting, having formed the ambition to become an artist at a young age.[2]
Maillol gained admission to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1885, where his instructors were Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel.[2] The work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin had an impact on Maillol's early paintings.[2] October of that year saw the birth of the couple's sole child, a son named Lucian.[3] The initial major sculpture created by Maillol, titled A Seated Woman, used his wife as its model.[4]
Upon its completion in 1902, the initial version received the new title La Méditerranée.[4] For a 1926–27 publication of Vergil's Eclogues by Harry Graf Kessler, Maillol produced woodcut illustrations.[5]
What the cited sources add
A lithograph "nude woman from reverse" was deposited in Rottach and brought to the CCP for identification.[6]
References
- Wikipedia, "Aristide Maillol" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "Maillol, Aristide". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web.; "Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). The Quest for Harmony Musée d'Orsay", www.musee-orsay.fr; "Nue Sans Draperie", Ekebergparken, 2015-04-23 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Aristide Maillol" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "Maillol, Aristide". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web.; Cowling, Elizabeth; Mundy, Jennifer (1990). On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910–1930. London: Tate Gallery. p. 148. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Aristide Maillol" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Himino, "Maillol", Graph, Inc., 2001 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Aristide Maillol" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "Maillol, Aristide". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web.; Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette. "Maillol, Aristide". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web.; "MoMA, The Collections, Aristide Maillol (French, 1861–1944)" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Aristide Maillol" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Aristide Maillol", Oxford Art Online (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "DHM: Datenbank zum Central Collecting Point München", www.dhm.de. facts only, no text reused. dhm.de
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