"Monument à Cézanne" in Tuileries Garden (Paris, France)
N 48° 51.767 E 002° 19.886
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This beautiful stulpture of naked young woman named "Monument à Cézanne", erected in Tuileries Garden next to Louvre Palace, is masterpiece of famous French artist Aristide Maillol...
Waymark Code: WM6GA0
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 05/30/2009
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"Monument à Cézanne" was Maillol’s first public commission (1912-1925). This supreme, flying couch of a woman left its mark on 20th Century giants like Picasso (in his classical period which featured giant-limbed, small-headed goddesses no less) and Moore (whose signature style features a bench-like, classically reposed, abstract woman). Monument would be a mother to Maillol’s late period masterpieces like The Mountain (1937), Air (1938), and The River (1938-43). The statute is cast from lead.
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was French sculptor, woodcut artist, and painter. At first a painter, Maillol studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and then allied himself with the Nabis. In his forties he turned to sculpture and quickly developed his characteristic style, creating strong, energetic nude figures of women. His affinity to classical sculpture was strengthened by a trip to Greece in 1908. Maillol's massive nudes were idealized, yet endowed with robustness and an impressive controlled tension. The River and several other works are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Maillol also made woodcuts illustrating Daphnis and Chloë and the works of Ovid and Vergil. A museum devoted mainly to his works opened in Paris in 1995.