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ARISTIDE JOSEPH BONAVENTURE JEAN MAILLOL (Banyuls-sur-Mer 1861 - 1944 Banyuls-sur-Mer)

Virgins, 1976
woodcut/paper 27 x 20 cm
graphic portfolio by EuroArt, inscribed 12 Original-Holzschnitte zu Virgiles "Géorgiques" Horace "Oden" Vom Künstler in Holz geschnitten 1937 und 1939 In limitierter Auflage neu gedruckt 1976 Dieses Exemplar hat die Nummer 305/2000 Jedes Exemplar trägt den Signaturstempel des Künstlers M (12 original woodcuts for Vergil's "Georgica" and Horace`s "Odes" Cut in wood by the artist in 1937 and 1939 Reprinted in a limited edition in 1976 This copy has the number 305/2000 Each copy bears the signature stamp of the artist, M)

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The French sculptor, painter, graphic artist and photographer Aristide Maillol is often referred to as the “Cézanne of sculpture” because he paved the way for sculpture to abstraction. From 1895 Maillol began to turn to sculpture. The main theme of his sculptural work was the female nude. In 1892 he joined the artist group Nabis. In the 1890s Maillol turned to making tapestries. In 1903 Maillol gave up making tapestries because of an eye problem. From the mid-1890s he carved small reliefs, which he exhibited at the SNBA (Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts) Paris Salon in 1896. In 1897 he presented a showcase with terracotta figures there. In 1902, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard presented 33 works by Maillol: tapestries, a wall fountain, the carved cradle of the son and statuettes made of plaster, wood and bronze. He initially made small sculptures out of wood and terracotta, from which he then developed his monumental stone and bronze figures. In addition to drawings, etchings and lithographs, Maillol's graphic work includes woodcuts in particular. An example is the volume of poetry Chansons pour elle. 25 poems by Paul Verlaine, Paris 1939, which was illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Maillol. Maillol was one of the most important illustrators of ancient literature, His series of images for Vergil's Eclogae et Georgica Ovid's Ars amandi are particularly well known. Like his sculptures, his graphic work is characterized by its emphasis on simple lines and contours. Maillol was of great influence on European, especially German, sculpture. Examples of this are the works of the German sculptors Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe and Arno Breker, who had a studio in Montmartre and learned from Maillol. Constantin Brâncuși and Henry Moore were also inspired by Maillol. In 1902, Maillol first appeared in public with his sculptural works with a major exhibition in the Ambroise Vollard Gallery. He attended the Collège Saint-Louis in Perpignan, where his desire to become an artist emerged. At the age of 20, Maillol moved to Paris to study art. He took part in a drawing course at the École des Beaux-Arts with the painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme. Gérome said that Maillol belonged in the arts and crafts school. There he took courses in sculpture. After a few months, Maillol returned to the École des Beaux-Arts and was accepted into the class of the salon painter Alexandre Cabanel. He initially earned his living by restoring stucco work. Maillol's recognition grew when Julius Meier-Graefe included him in the influential publication History of the Development of Modern Art in 1904. In the same year the artist met his most important patron, Harry Graf Kessler, for whom he executed some of his major works. In addition to Count Kessler, important international collectors included Karl Ernst Osthaus, Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser, Oskar Reinhart in Winterthur, Johannes Rump in Copenhagen and the Kröller-Müller couple in The Hague. In 1905 he exhibited his first monumental major work, La Méditerranée (“The Mediterranean”) at the Salon d’Automne. His wife Clotilde was the model for it. In France, Octave Mirbeau, Gustave Fayet and Jacques Zoubaloff were his patrons. In 1913, the first solo exhibition of Maillol's work outside of France took place at the Kunstkring Rotterdam. In the same year, Maillol's works were represented in the Armory Show in New York. Maillol's most important exhibitions took place in Berlin in 1928 in Alfred Flechtheim's gallery, in 1933 in the Kunsthalle Basel and as part of an exhibition of French art on the occasion of the 1937 World Exhibition in the Petit Palais in Paris. As a painter, Maillol was modeled on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin, with whom he was acquainted. Some of Maillol's works were shown at documenta 1 (1955) and documenta III in 1964 in Kassel. Further artists and styles: Auguste Rodin, Charles Despiau, Constantin Brancusi, Antoine Bourdelle, Camille Claudel, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Georg Kolbe, Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Impressionismus, Nabis
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