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Aristide Maillol

1861 – Banyuls-sur-Mer – 1944

„Jeune fille agenouillée“ (Kniendes Mädchen). Before 1902

Terracotta, mounted on black lacquered wooden base. Height (without base): 16,5 cm (6 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Aristide Maillol. „Jeune fille agenouillée“ (Kniendes Mädchen). Before 1902.

Estimate:

EUR 25,000

 

- 35,000

USD 28,000

 

- 39,200

Sold for:

36,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

Selected Works, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Terracotta, mounted on black lacquered wooden base. Height (without base): 16,5 cm (6 ½ in.). Accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Ursel Berger, Berlin, dated 25 July 2016.

Museum Folkwang, Hagen (acquired by Karl Ernst Osthaus presumably 1904 at Galerie Vollard, Paris, until 1921) / Collection Adalbert and Thilda Colsman, Langenberg (thence by descent to the present owner)

The first Maillol Vollard editions were presented in 1902. They were made after plaster models by Aristide Maillol in bronze and terracotta. Our copy was possibly executed by the ceramist André Metthey.

Aristide Maillol. Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, 1928, cat. no. 35 („Kniende, Ton“) (?) / Aristide Maillol. Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum; Lausanne, Museé cantonal des Beaux-Arts; Bremen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, and Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, 1996/97, cat. no. 39

Kurt Freyer (ed.): Museum Folkwang. vol. I: Moderne Kunst, Plastik, Malerei, Graphik. Hagen 1912, cat no. 29 („Kniendes Mädchen“, terracotta, height 17 cm) (?)

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