Aristide Maillol:
Sculpture "Baigneuse debout drapée - Standing Bather with a Cloak" (1900), reduction in bronze
Aristide Maillol:
Sculpture "Baigneuse debout drapée - Standing Bather with a Cloak" (1900), reduction in bronze

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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 980 copies | numbered | signature | foundry hallmark | certificate | bronze | patinated | reduction | size 38.5 x 10 x 10 cm (h/w/d) | weight 3.5 kg

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Sculpture "Baigneuse debout drapée - Standing Bather with a Cloak" (1900), reduction in bronze
Aristide Maillol: Sculpture "Baigneuse debout drapée - St...

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Sculpture "Baigneuse debout drapée - Standing Bather with a Cloak" (1900), reduction in bronze

Aristide Maillol's main theme is the female nude. Although he developed it on a living model, he abandoned individual features to create a harmonious, sensual femininity par excellence. The "Standing Bather with a Cloak" shows that Maillol had already found his own stylistic expression early on, which he barely changed in the decades that followed.

Fine bronze, cast by hand using the Lost-Wax-Process and patinated brown like the original. Directly moulded from the original and reduced in size (reduction). Limited edition of 980 copies, individually numbered and with the signature taken from the original as well as the foundry hallmark. ars mundi Exclusive Edition, published in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bremen. With numbered certificate of authenticity and limitation. Size 38,5 x 10 x 10 cm (h/w/d). Weight 3,5 kg.

"The important French sculptor Aristide Maillol is represented with several works in the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen. The artist combined a lifelong fascination for the motif of the female nude with a reduced, classical stylistic expression. 'Standing Bather with Cloak' is a particularly fine copy of a figure at peace with herself." (Prof. Dr Christoph Grunenberg, Director of the Kunsthalle Bremen)

About Aristide Maillol

1861-1944

Alongside Auguste Rodin, who held him in high esteem, Aristide Maillol is one of the most important French sculptors of his generation. Yet his path to sculpture was quite unusual: It was around 1895 when he was in his mid-thirties, he began to work seriously with sculpture in wood and clay. He began working as a self-taught artist after studying painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Maillol had initially became known as a painter and graphic artist clearly influenced by Paul Gauguin. However, he had already expanded his means of artistic expression early on by working intensively with ceramic art and with woven and knotted works. Maillol's first major solo exhibition was a compilation of tapestries and early small sculptures. From the turn of the century onwards, he concentrated more and more on sculpture.

On the one hand, Maillol's sculptures refer strongly to classical sculpture with their emphasis on evenness and balance. On the other hand, they take steps towards abstraction and, precisely because of this, he became a model for the following generation of sculptors. His main theme was the female nude, which he executed as a harmonious, sensual femininity par excellence, although developed on a living model, renouncing individual features.

Maillol's best-known works include the large sculptures "The Three Nymphs" in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris and, especially among German art lovers, "The River", a reclining female nude that can be admired in front of the Hamburg Kunsthalle.

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