Aristide Maillol - Banyuls sur Mer, France
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This relief carving of Aristide Maillol was erected in honour of the local sculptor.
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Location: Occitanie, France
Date Posted: 09/22/2014
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orn in Banyuls in 1861, Aristide Maillol went to live in Paris when he was 20 to study at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under the supervision of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.
His early works were tapestries made in Banyuls and inspired by his contemporaries in the like of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin.
The sculptures of female bodies with generous curves that gained him recognition and are regarded as precursors to the works of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti were only cast when the artist was around 40.
He died in 1944 and now rests in the garden of his farmhouse, ‘La Métairie’ near Banyuls, where he lived from 1910, in the quiet Roume Valley.
This house is now a museum open to the public. It contains his tomb, decorated with the statue ‘La Méditerranée’, but also ceramics, bronze statues, paintings ... You can also discover his studio, and within its walls, in fact, his daily life, which helps understand his path and work.
Many of his works are also visible throughout the city, including his ‘Monument aux Morts Pacifistes’ (English: Memorial to the Pacifist Dead), behind the town hall, or the ‘La Jeune Fille Allongée’ (English: The Lying Girl)
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along the alleys that bear his name.
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The memorial has a bronze relief plaque of the head of Maillol attached to a stone block, on the edge of the esplanade. Below the carving is the following inscription in gold lettering.
ARISTIDE
MAILLOL
1861 - 1944