Lot 120
  • 120

Aristide Maillol

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Aristide Maillol
  • Baigneuse debout se coiffant
  • Inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani, Cire Perdue
  • Bronze
  • Height: 15 in.
  • 38.1 cm

Provenance

Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Private Collection, Canada (acquired from the above in 1983)
Thence by descent

Literature

Waldemar George, Maillol, Paris, 1971, illustration of another cast p. 94 (titled Femme debout) 
Linda Kramer, Aristide Maillol, Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (Ph.D. dissertation), New York University, New York, 2000, illustration of another cast pl. 260

Condition

Rich nut brown patina. Surface is clean apart from a few pindot surface scuffs the work is in excellent condition.
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