Woman kneeling
Maker
(artist)
1861-1944
(etcher)
1861-1944
(publisher)
1894-1980
1861-1944
(etcher)
1861-1944
(publisher)
1894-1980
Title
Woman kneeling
Date of Production
1927
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 27.2 cm
Width: 27.2 cm
Accession Number
G.1935.SC.184
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
The precise yet fluid line in this graceful etching of a kneeling woman seems to express a sense of sculptural volume, typical of Maillol’s monumental treatment of the human figure. The pose is one which recurs throughout his work. While Maillol frequently relied upon the live model, he also took inspiration from his own sculptures; the figure’s posture is a subtle variation on one he had first begun to use two decades previously in his ground-breaking sculpture La Méditerranée (1905).
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Exhibition History
Special Display - Picasso, Matisse, Maillol: The Female Model, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/01/2013-26/05/2013
The Sculpted Nude: Aristide Maillol and Eric Gill, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/12/2003-29/02/2004
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Sculpted Nude: Aristide Maillol and Eric Gill, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/12/2003-29/02/2004
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
Inscriptions
Inscription: inscription : signed with monogram in pencil : lower right & recto : : M
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