ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944)

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Lot 1 | ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944)
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ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944)

Portrait de Mademoiselle Jeanne Faraill

signed ‘Aristide Maillol’ (lower right)

oil on canvas

59 3/8 x 40 3/8 in. (150.9 x 102.4 cm.)

Painted in 1888-1889





Provenance

Albert Faraill, Nancy, by whom commissioned from the artist.

Jeanne Faraill [the sitter], Nancy, by descent from the above.

Galerie Lorenceau, Paris.

Acquired from the above on 7 November 1962, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

W. Slatkin, Aristide Maillol in the 1890s, Michigan, 1976, no. 3, pp. 25 & 26 (illustrated; titled 'Young Girl in Red: Portrait of Jeanne Sarrail'; dated '1890').

C. Breker, Der frühe Maillol, Würzburg, 1992, no. 9, pp. 79 & 195.

M. Hoog, 'Maillol peintre, Précisions sur quelques tableaux et sur les débuts de sa carrière à Paris (1889)', in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Paris, 1994, no.1, pp. 253 & 256 (illustrated p. 254).



Exhibited

Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, Spring 1890, no. 1573.

Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Maillol: Peintures-dessins, March 1953, no. 2 (titled 'Portrait de fillette en pied').

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Aristide Maillol: 1861-1944, December 1975 - March 1976, no. 2, p. 35 (illustrated; titled 'Young Girl in Red (Portrait of Mlle. Sarrail)').

Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Aristide Maillol, January - May 1996, no. 3, p. 199 (illustrated p. 74); this exhibition later travelled to Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, May - September 1996; Bremen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, October 1996 - January 1997 and Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, January - March 1997.

Paris, Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Maillol Peintre, June - October 2001, no. 12, p. 60 (illustrated p. 61).

Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Aristide Maillol (1861-1944): La quête de l’harmonie’, April - August 2022, no. 37, p. 48 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, October 2022 - January 2023 and Roubaix, La Piscine - Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent, February - May 2023.



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