Lot n° 36
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Aristide MAILLOL (1861-1944) - Lot 36
Aristide MAILLOL (1861-1944)
Woman with both hands with hair (or Bather styling her hair or Standing woman styling her hair)
Model made no later than 1905
Bronze print, without numbering
Florentin Godard sand casting between 1909 and 1939.
Monogrammed in a circle (on the back): AM
H. 38 x 10 x 11.5 cm
A certificate from Mrs. Ursel Berger will be given to the purchaser.
Bibliography :
- Maillol, collection "Das Meisterwerk", Berlin, Gustav Weise Verlag, date unknown, repr. no. 8.
- Ursel Berger, Jörg Zutter, Aristide Maillol, cat. exp., Berlin, Georg-Kolbe Museum (14 January - 5 May 1996), Lausanne, Musée des Beaux-Arts (15 May - 22 September 1996), Bremen, Gerhard Marcks-Museum (6 October 1996 - 13 January 1997), Manheim, Städtische Kunsthalle (25 January - 31 March 1997), Paris, Flammarion, 1996, cat. no. 55 (other print).
- Villa Flora: Enchanted Times. A time of enchantment, exp. cat., Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet - Académie des Beaux-Arts (10 September 2015 - 7 February 2016), Paris, Hazan, 2015, cat. no. 20 (other paper).
Aristide Maillol created the model of the Woman with Two Hands with Hair no later than 1905, a pivotal year in his career as a sculptor: he received public recognition during the exhibition of La Méditerranée at the Salon d'Automne and the signing of a second contract for the bronze edition of some of his models with the merchant Ambroise Vollard. After organizing Maillol's first monographic exhibition in 1902, he had him sign his first publishing contract. In the second contract, dated December 20, 1905, the work presented here is listed as "Femme les deux mains dans les cheveux", and acquired by Ambroise Vollard "with the right of edition and reproduction". For his bronze editions, Ambroise Vollard had the Parisian foundry Florentin Godard working from 1909 onwards, using the sand casting technique. This production, to which our print belongs, ge
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