Deux Femmes Dans L'Herbe

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Aristide Maillol
Deux Femmes Dans L'Herbe
1926

Name: Deux Femmes Dans L'Herbe
Brand: Aristide Maillol
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Deux Femmes Dans L'Herbe Lithograph, 1926 Monogramed in pencil, "M" by the artist lower right (see photo) Numbered in pencil lower left; (65/125) (see photo) Edition: 125, plus 10 proofs Provenance: Private Collection, Essex Fells, NJ Publisher: Henri Petiet Editeur, Paris (Blind stamp lower right) Reference: Guerin 287 iii/III Condition: excellent Image size: 7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches Sheet: 13 1/4 x 15 5/8 inches Aristide Maillol B. 1861, BANYULS-SUR-MER, FRANCE; D. 1944, PERPIGNAN, FRANCE Aristide Maillol was born December 8, 1861, in Banyuls-sur-Mer, a small fishing village in the French Pyrenees. In 1881, he moved to Paris and began applying to the École des beaux-arts, to which he was finally accepted in 1885. He studied under the painters Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, but became disillusioned with the strict academicism of their teaching. In May 1889 at an exhibition in the Café Volpini, Maillol encountered works by Paul Gauguin, which changed the direction of his art. Over the next few years, he produced stylized paintings of women, such as Mademoiselle Faraill au chapeau (Mademoiselle Faraill with a hat, 1890). Gauguin suggested he join the Nabis, a group of young artists influenced by Impressionism and the decorative elements of Art Nouveau and included Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard. Maillol became associated with the group and showed work with them in 1895 and 1896 at Louis le Barc de Boutteville’s Parisian gallery. Sharing the Nabis’ interest in the decorative arts, Maillol began working in tapestry; exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts, Paris; and opened a workshop in his hometown in 1893. However, due to his declining eyesight, Maillol began producing small terracotta sculptures. By age 40, in 1901, he was almost exclusively a sculptor. Maillol’s statuettes and his later, more monumental works focus on the female figure, thick-limbed, symmetrical, and highly archetypal. Working at a time marked by Auguste Rodin’s realist influence, Maillol instead emphasized the formal qualities of the body, rather than emotional or psychological meaning. In 1902 his first solo exhibition of tapestries and statuettes was held at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. Over the next few years, he produced and reproduced several works and themes, including The Mediterranean (La Méditerranée, 1905), a half-seated, half-reclining figure based on his wife, which he exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne. Maillol’s figures exude an overwhelmingly placid, stable, and self-contained air, even when the figure appears to be in motion, as in the walking woman of Ile-de-France (1925). For a public monument to the socialist Louis Blanqui, Maillol created Chained Action (Action enchaînée, 1905–08), an aggressively striding nude. Maillol returned to two-dimensional work intermittently in his career: in 1912 he created a series of woodcuts for an edition of Virgil’s Eclogues (ca. 42–38 BCE) and in 1939, prints for poet Paul Verlaine’s Chansons pour elle (Songs for her, 1891). However, his primarily sculptural output of composed, harmonious nudes remained stylistically consistent. In 1934, he met 15-year-old Dina Vierny, who became his model and friend as well as accompanied him to Banyuls, where he worked in near solitude during World War II. After Maillol died in an automobile accident in Banyuls in 1944, Vierny established a foundation to administer his estate, which became two museums dedicated to his work: Musée Maillol, Paris and Banyuls-sur-Mer. Major retrospectives of his work have been shown at many venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1941); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1951); Haus der Kunst, Munich (1962); Guggenheim Museum (1975); and Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (2012). Courtesy: Guggenheim Museum

Creator:
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944, French)
Creation Year:
1926
Dimensions:
Height: 7.75 in (19.69 cm)Width: 9.875 in (25.09 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
French School
Period:
1920-1929
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Fairlawn, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: FA90721stDibs: LU14010551172

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L' ARBRE EXTATIQUE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free, by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. L' ARBRE EXTATIQUE confronts the viewer with a bold exotic yellow female nude set against a deep black background. One cannot avoid being intrigued by this exotic woman - her striking blue eye and long blue hair, posing with hand on her hip as an exotic red bird closes in towards her; a light yellow sphere encasing a green leafed tree form above. Print size - 23.25 x 19.75 in. unframed, excellent condition, full bleed image, vivid colors, pencil signed by Corneille Edition size - 200, plus proofs Year published - 1981 Printed at J K Fine Art Editions Co. NYC About the artist Corneille - Guillaume Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium on July 3, 1922. Corneille studied drawing at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie, but as a painter he was entirely self-taught. After having attended courses at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, he started his painting experience influenced by Surrealism. Corneille, also known as Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. He is co-founder with Karel Appel, Eugene...

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