Lot Essay
Sold with a photo-certificate from Dina Vierny
Details
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Femme assise
marked with the monogram, numbered 1/6 and stamped with the foundry mark on the back of the base C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE, bronze with brown patina
11 7/8in. (30.2cm.) high
Conceived in 1920 and cast at a later date in a numbered edition of 6
Femme assise
marked with the monogram, numbered 1/6 and stamped with the foundry mark on the back of the base C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE, bronze with brown patina
11 7/8in. (30.2cm.) high
Conceived in 1920 and cast at a later date in a numbered edition of 6
Provenance
Dina Vierny, Paris
Literature
W. George, Maillol, Paris, 1971, (another cast illustrated p. 64) W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'Ame de la Sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 170, no. 179 (another cast illustrated pl. 179)
Exhibited
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Aristide Maillol, Oct. 1961-Jan. 1962. This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Frankfurt, Kunstverein; Stuttgart, Würtembergischer Kunstverein and Munich, Haus der Kunst
Perpignan, Palais des Rois de Majorque, Maillol, 1979, no. 62
Perpignan, Palais des Rois de Majorque, Maillol, 1979, no. 62