Aristide Maillol Furniture

Le sommeil sous les arbes by Aristide Maillol, #XVIII of XX, 1943 engraving. "Sleeping Under the Trees", a wood engraving with the Maillol stamp & pencil numbered (18 of 20). French,...

Beautiful reproduction of a nude bust in a patinated bronze finish sitting on a solid walnut base, circa 1950's by Austin productions. Made of ceramic and faux bronze finish.

Pencil sketch by Aristide Maillol (French 1861-1944) Study for 'La Mediterranee' Executed, circa 1902-1903.

A petite bronze sculpture of a seated woman mounted to a rectangular bronze base.

Aristide Maillol painting sketch or study of a Kneeling Woman, red crayon sanguine on buff paper; signed lower right in black crayon with monogram "M". A classic Art Deco - Art Deco addition to any room and a sound investment. Paper: 13 x 8.5 inches. Framed gilt wood New: 19.5 x 14.75 inches. Condition: Good. Laid on board with stains and traces of water lines. Stable and visually pleasing. Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French: December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art.[1] After several applications and several years of living in poverty, his enrollment in the École des Beaux-Arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. His early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin. Gauguin encouraged his growing interest in decorative art, an interest that led Maillol to take up tapestry design. In 1893 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France. He began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895, and within a few years his concentration on sculpture led to the abandonment of his work in tapestry. In July 1896, Maillol married Clotilde Narcis, one of his employees at his tapestry workshop. Their only son, Lucian, was born that October. Maillol's first major sculpture, A Seated Woman, was modeled after his wife. The first version (in the Museum of Modern Art, New York) was completed in 1902, and renamed La Méditerranée.[1] Maillol, believing that "art does not lie in the copying of nature", produced a second, less naturalistic version in 1905. In 1902, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard provided Maillol with his first exhibition. The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature work is the female body, treated with a classical emphasis on stable forms. The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore, and his serene classicism set a standard for European (and American) figure sculpture until the end of World War II. Josep Pla...