Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker. ==Biography== Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon.
Guggenheim Museum, "Aristide Maillol, 1861-1944", New York, Solomon R.
He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to study art.
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.
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.
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.
The first version (in the Museum of Modern Art, New York) was completed in 1902, and renamed La Méditerranée.
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.
Maillol, believing that "art does not lie in the copying of nature", produced a second, less naturalistic version in 1905.
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (; December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker. ==Biography== Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon.
Guggenheim Foundation, 1975. Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 (German), (French) ==Further reading== Lorquin, Bertrand (1995).
Guggenheim Foundation, 1975. Frèches-Thory, Claire, & Perucchi-Petry, Ursula, ed.: Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, Kunsthaus Zürich & Grand Palais, Paris & Prestel, Munich 1993 (German), (French) ==Further reading== Lorquin, Bertrand (1995).
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