Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
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Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)

La pensée

細節
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
La pensée
signed with the monogram and numbered '4/6' (on the left of the base); stamped with the foundry mark 'Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the reverse of the base)
bronze with mid-brown and green patina
Height: 11 3/8in. (28.9cm.)
Conceived in 1930
來源
Gimpel Fils, London.
Acquired from the above by the husband of the present owner.
出版
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, London 1995, p. 104 (another cast illustrated p. 105).
注意事項
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拍品專文

Dina Vierny has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Bertrand Lorquin, in his 1994 monograph on Maillol (loc. cit.), discusses the sculptor's choice of subjects, commenting on La pensée and another work from 1930, Femme accroupie: 'Their pose refers only secondarily to reality. In each case, the sculpture is a small block of bronze articulating solid forms which verge on pure abstraction. These works show us how far Maillol's art has evolved since his first Nabi statuettes. The beauty they express in almost abstract terms stems from plastic experiments based on a single idea - the idea of pushing simplification to an extreme. It was this quest for ever greater simplification that led Maillol to return again and again to the same subjects, the same themes; it was this which allowed him to spend ten years working on a sculpture.'