Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)

lle-de-France

Details

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Maillol, A.
lle-de-France
signed with monogram (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark and numbered 'Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris, pr. cis 1/2' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 33 in. (84.5 cm.)
The earliest version of Ile-de-France, a torso only, dates from circa 1910 and the final version from circa 1925.
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Provenance

Michel Fert.
Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris.
Paul Mellon, Washington, D.C. and Upperville, Virginia; sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1983, lot 39.
Acquired at the above sale for The Akram Ojjeh Collection.

Literature

J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, p. 165 (large version and plaster cast illustrated, pp. 66-67).
M. Bouvier, Aristide Maillol, Lausanne, 1945 (another cast illustrated).
J. Cladel, Aristide Maillol, Buenos Aires, 1946, no. 32 (another cast illustrated).
R. Linnenkamp, Aristide Maillol, Die grossen Plastiken, Munich, 1960, p. 81 (another cast illustrated).
W. George, Maillol, Paris, 1971, pp. 14, 21, 56, 61 and 74 (large version illustrated, p. 23).
W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'me de la sculpture, Neuchtel, 1977, pp. 170 and 246 (other casts illustrated, pp. 184-185).
M. Bouille, Maillol: la femme toujours recommence, Paris, 1989, pp. 48 and 54.
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, London, 1995, p. 91 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

Dina Vierny has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.

Ile-de-France marks a change in the beauty ideal that had encompassed Maillol's work up to this point in his career. With her small head, arched back, upright breasts, and powerful limbs, Ile-de-France represents a much stronger presence than the provincial, mediterranean subjects of his earlier years. This robust and dignified personage with her sinuous body is as Waldemar George has noted ". . . more french than latin" (W. George, op. cit., p. 26).
The present work is one of the two casts hand-chased by the artist (<->preuve cisele<->).

lle-de-France

Lot Essay

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