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Aristide Maillol

"I do not pretend to invent anything, no more than the tree invents its fruit."

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Notes of biography

Aristide Maillol was born in 1861 in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. He is 20 years old when he moves to Paris. After having taken drawing classes until 1885, he is admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris from1885-1893. Friend of Gauguin, he starts to sculpt in 1895. In the second half of the 90’s, Aristide Maillol makes tapestries and paints in the Nabi style. Following, throughout his long artistic career, Maillol works in a timeless style, without referring to different avant-garde movements, the artist likes to say "I work as if nothing exists, as if I don’t understand anything. I am the first man to do sculpture".
His first solo exhibition is organized in 1902. Aristide Maillol regularly exhibits at the Salon d’Automne from 1904. In 1913 he participates in the Armory Show of New York.
Maillol works principally on studies of the human body, attaching to the harmony of forms, to their architectural equilibrium. The artist essentially sculpts large nude females and large bosoms, in all positions (standing, sitting, lying down), naked, draped, sometimes clothed; his works, smooth and purified, are allegories of the flesh that represent the seasons, the days, the sentiments, the elements; these personages can be nymphs or simply women busy with daily life.
From the beginning of the century (1900), Aristide Maillol produces numerous monumental public works, for example the "Auguste Blanqui Monument". After the First World War, the local municipal officer passes him numerous commands to make monuments to the dead (Ceret, Elne, Port-Vendres and Banyuls, his hometown).
A nice ensemble of his works has been installed today in the gardens of the Louvre and the Carrousel in Paris. A free man, Maillol dared everything; he must be considered as one of the founders of modern sculpture.
Aristide Maillol died in 1944 in Banyuls-sur-Mer.

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Complete work(s)

Complete work(s)
*« The works of A. Maillol, complete catalogue », J. Rewald, Pantheon Books Editeur, New York, 1951 All the complete works

Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « Les ateliers de Maillol », J. Rewald, Le Point n° XVII, nov. 1938
  • « A. M. : l’âme de la sculpture », G. Waldemar, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1964
  • « Aristide Maillol », coll., cat., Ed. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1975
  • « Maillol : la Méditérannée », D. Verny, Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1986
  • « Maillol aux Tuileries », B. Lorquin, A. Biro, Paris, 1991
  • « M.. La passion du bronze », B. Loquin, Ed. Fond. Dina Vierny-Musée M., 1995
  • « Maillol Peintre », coll., cat., Ed. Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, 2001
  • « Aristide Maillol », coll., cat., Ed. Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, 2002
  • « Aristide Maillol », B. Loquin, Ed. Albert Skira, 2002
  • « Rodin & Maillol : Le sublime et le beau », M. Paraire, Ed. de l’Épervier, 2017
To read from the artist :
  • « Conversations de Maillol », H. Frère, Kaeser, Lausanne, 1950
Website :
www.museemaillol.com

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Art movements

+ NABIS MOVEMENT / 1888-1910 / Paul Sérusier, Paul Ranson, Henri Gabriel Ibels, Maurice Denis, etc.
+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
+ MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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