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Woman kneeling

Maker

(artist)
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

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed with monogram in pencil : lower right & recto : : M

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