Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Dina Vierny dated Paris, le 12 septembre 2001.
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Baigneuse debout se coiffant
Details
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Baigneuse debout se coiffant
signed with the monogram and numbered '2/6' (on the top of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 14¼in. (36.1cm.)
Conceived in 1919-1921; this version cast in 1930 in a numbered edition of six plus two artist's proofs
Baigneuse debout se coiffant
signed with the monogram and numbered '2/6' (on the top of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 14¼in. (36.1cm.)
Conceived in 1919-1921; this version cast in 1930 in a numbered edition of six plus two artist's proofs
Provenance
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Herbert A. Goldstone, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 June 1994, lot 147.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Herbert A. Goldstone, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 June 1994, lot 147.
Literature
J. Rewald, Maillol, London, 1939, p. 134 (terracotta version illustrated).
W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1964, p. 173 (another cast illustrated).
W. George, Aristide Maillol, New York, 1965, p. 99 (another cast illustrated).
W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1964, p. 173 (another cast illustrated).
W. George, Aristide Maillol, New York, 1965, p. 99 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective pour le centenaire de la naissance de Maillol, June-Oct. 1961, no. 64 (illustrated on the cover of the catalogue).
New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art, May-Dec. 1965, no. 119.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Herbert A. Goldstone Collection of American Art, May-Dec. 1965, no. 119.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium
Sale room notice
Please note that this work may not have been cast in 1930 as stated in the catalogue but was cast during the artist's lifetime. Please also note that the last line of provenance is incorrect.