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Flore Drapée (Avec Guirlande de Fleurs), 1909. Cast in 1930. Completely restored with hot patina in 1984.

Aristide Maillol

Exhibited by Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Material Bronze with patina

Dimensions 164 x 49 x 40 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

Flore is one of four bronze sculptures – a group called Les Saisons, with Pomone, L’Eté, Le Printemps – that Maillol created between 1910 and 1912, on the recommendation of his friend the painter Maurice Denis, to decorate the music room of the private mansion of the great Moscow collector of modern art, Morozov.

Conceived in 1911 and cast in bronze by Florentin Godard (for the first proof) and Alexis Rudier in an unnumbered edition of 12 proofs. The present work was cast circa 1920.

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Provenance

Stephen C. Clark (acquired before 1940)
Stephen C. Clark (by descent from the above; sale: Christie's New York, November 13, 1984, lot 132)
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Literature

J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, illustration of plaster pp. 68-69
A. C. Ritchie, Aristide Maillol, 1945, p. 82, illustration of another cast
J. Masin, Aristide Maillol, Prague, 1960, n° 33, illustration of another cast
W. George, Aristide Maillol, London & Paris, 1965, illustration of another cast dated 1912 p. 166
D. Chevalier, Maillol, New York, 1970, p. 63, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue: The Salomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Aristide Maillol: 1861-1944, 1975, illustration of another cast p. 73
H. Hibbard, Masterpieces of Western sculpture, 1977, p. 229, illustration of another cast
W. George, Aristide Maillol, Collection des grandes monographies, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 167, illustration of another cast
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, London, 1995, p. 50, illustration of another cast
L. Kramer, Aristide Maillol (1861-1944): Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, PhD, New York, 2000, pp. 154-159