1861 - 1944
French
La Nymphe sans bras
bronze and patina, 1930
initialed, editioned 3/6 and stamped with the Alexis Rudier fondeur Paris foundry mark
61 1/2 x 15 x 12 1/2 in, 156.2 x 38.1 x 31.8 cm
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
Sold for: $301,250
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PROVENANCE
Lucien Maillol, son of the Artist
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculptures, Sotheby’s London, December 6, 1979, lot 30, titled as Nymphe
W. Lawrence Heisey, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto
LITERATURE
John Rewald, Maillol, 1939, the original plaster and lead cast illustrated plate 130, the grouping Les Trois Graces reproduced plate 131, each listed page 167
Pierre Camo, Maillol: Mon ami, 1950, page 69
John Rewald, Original Pieces of Sculpture by Aristide Maillol, Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1958, page 6, listed and reproduced page 38
Bertrand Lorquin, Maillol, 1995, another casting reproduced page 114 and listed page 199 as The Nymph (Armless)
EXHIBITED
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, Original Pieces of Sculpture by Aristide Maillol, March 3 – 29, 1958, traveling 1958 – February 1960 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo; Minneapolis Art Institute; St. Louis City Art Museum; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum; and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, titled as Nymph, catalogue #37
Estimate: $300,000 - $500,000 CAD
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