Thursday, 18 April 2019

Aristide Maillol statues in Paris

These statues are located in the Jardin des Tuileries (near the Louvres Museum) in Paris, France. 




Monument à Cézanne (1925 – lead) by Aristide Maillol 




Air (lead) by Aristide Maillol



For the sculpture “Air”, Maillol modeled Dina Vierny (who was Maillol’s muse for the last 10 years of his life – she also modeled for Matisse and Bonnard) in plaster in 1938. This casts is one of an edition of six.



Monument aux morts de Port Vendres (1923 – lead) by Aristide Maillol 



The model for this work was also Dina Vierny. For the original war monument (for World War 1), the statue is in stone.




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Aristide Maillol on Wikipedia

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