Aristide MAILLOL
(1861 – 1944)
French sculptor, painter and graphic artist, who was considered the antipode of Auguste RODIN and one of the most famous sculptors in the first half of the 20th century | 1861 born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Département Pyrénées-Orientales, France | 1882 moves to Paris, enrolls at the “Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts” | 1889 meets Antoine BOURDELLE, who helps him with financial difficulties | 1892 his meeting with Paul GAUGUIN is decisive | 1900 turning point in Maillol’s work, as he invents a veritable repertoire of forms that prefigured his future work | 1933 retrospectives in New York and Basel | 1937 his sculptures were given place in the “Palais de Tokyo” | 1944 died in Banyuls-sur-Mer
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