MAILLOL, Aristide

Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1861 - Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1944

Auguste Renoir

Auguste Renoir

probably modeled in 1906 or 1907, probably cast about 1907

bronze

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 15 ⁷⁄₈ x 9 ¹⁄₂; weight: 22,3 lb

signed, incised on underside of the base: M [within circle, the sculptor's monogram]
mark on the underside of the base, raised: D

Acc. No.: 53.140.8

Credit Line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, in memory of Cornelius J. Sullivan

Photo credit: www.metmuseum.org

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

Provenance

• ?-1939, New York, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan
• 1939-1951, New York, The Museum of Modern Art (acc. no. 592.39)
• 1951, Edith Perry Chapman Fund, acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, in memory of Cornelius J. Sullivan

Bibliography

• 1966 Vincent
  Clare Vincent, "In search of a likeness: some European portrait sculpture", Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 24, 1966 (April), cover, p. 254-255, fig. 14-16

Exhibitions

• 1939 New York
  Art in our time, An Exhibition to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the opening of its New Building, New York, Museum of Modern Art, May 10-September 30, 1939, no. 264
  
  
  1939 Boston
  Despiau-Maillol, Boston, Institute of Modern Art, January-February 1939
  
  
  1940 New York
  
  Buchholz Gallery, New York, 1940, no. 10
  
  
  1941 New York
  Lehmbruck-Maillol, New York, Buchholz Gallery, 1941, no. 27
  
  
  1942 New York
  Twentieth Century Portraits, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p. 39, 140, ill.
  
  
  1945 Buffalo
  Aristide Maillol, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, 1945, p. 74, 106
  
  
  2007 Berlin
  French Masterpieces of the 19th century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 31 May-7 October, 2007, unnumbered cat.
  
  
  2009-2010 Philadelphia/Paris/Los Angeles
  Renoir in the 20th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 17-September 6, 2009; Paris, Grand Palais, September 23, 2009-January 4, 2010; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 14-May 9, 2010, cat. 117

Related works

• Other bronze examples:
  - Cagnes-sur-Mer, Musée Renoir
  - Chicago, Art Institute
  - Munich, Neue Staatsgalerie
  - New York, Marc Chagall (in 1944)
  - New York, John A. Dunbar (in 1945)
  - New York, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Liebman (in 1945)
  - Princeton, Mrs. Marquand Forsyth (in 1945)

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