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The Musée d’Orsay pays homage to Aristide Maillol, a timeless artist often opposed to Rodin, by emphasizing his period, as fertile as it was little known, before the First World War.
Maillol is now very famous for his sculptures in the Carrousel du Louvre garden, but this exhibition presents unpublished drawings and sketches gi- ving a new vision of his creative process.
For the first time, four major sculptures by Maillol, including the mythical Mediterranean made for Count Kessler, are coming out of the Oskar Rein- hart Winterthur Foundation, the famous Swiss institution. 200 works in- cluding 90 sculptures show the fruitful exchanges between Maillol and his relations, from Rodin to Renoir and from Bonnard to Vuillard.
Monumental pieces converse with drawings and preparatory sketches in order to understand the stages of the work of this artist obsessed with the plasticity of the female body.
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) and André Metthey, ceramist Léda, vase circa 1907 Earthenware H. 53 cm Private collection Marc and Pierre Larock
© Photo collection Marc and Pierre Larock