Lot Essay
Dina Vierny has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.
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Study for Harmonie
Details
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Study for Harmonie
signed with monogram and numbered '1/6' (on the back); stamped with foundry mark 'C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 60.3/8 in. (153.2 cm.)
Original plaster version executed 1942-1943; this bronze version cast in 1950
Study for Harmonie
signed with monogram and numbered '1/6' (on the back); stamped with foundry mark 'C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 60.3/8 in. (153.2 cm.)
Original plaster version executed 1942-1943; this bronze version cast in 1950
Provenance
Dina Vierny, Paris.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 1966.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 1966.
Literature
W. George, Aristide Maillol, Paris, 1964, pp. 206 and 247 (another cast illustrated, p. 221).