Property from a Private Collection
Aristide Maillol
1861 - 1944
Étude pour 'L'Harmonie'
stamped with artist's monogram and with the foundry mark Valsuani Cire Perdue and numbered 3/6
bronze
height: 59 ½ in. 151 cm.
Conceived in 1942-43 and cast circa 1965 by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris; this example is number 3 from an edition of 6.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Olivier Lorquin.
Condition Report
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1970)
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1983, lot 79a (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol, Paris, 1964, pp. 208 and 211, illustration of another cast
Bertrand Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, Geneva, 1994, p. 149, illustration of another cast in color
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Aristide Maillol, 1970, no. 61, p. 42, illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Aristide Maillol: 1861-1944, 1975, no. 111, p. 98, illustrated