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Dina Vierny has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.
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Etude pour La Méditerranée
Details
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Etude pour La Méditerranée
signed with monogram and numbered '5/6' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Alexis Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Length: 6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1902-1905; this bronze version cast before 1952
Etude pour La Méditerranée
signed with monogram and numbered '5/6' (on the top of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Alexis Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Length: 6 3/8 in. (16.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1902-1905; this bronze version cast before 1952
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Literature
J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, p. 165, pls. 50-51 (another version illustrated).
W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 245 (another version illustrated, pp. 65-67).
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, Geneva, 1994, p. 197 (another version illustrated, p. 47).
W. George, Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 245 (another version illustrated, pp. 65-67).
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, Geneva, 1994, p. 197 (another version illustrated, p. 47).
Sale room notice
Dina Vierny has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.