Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Femme debout se coiffant
signed with monogram (on the top of the base); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '6/6 C.VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1907; this bronze version cast in 1974
Provenance
Gallery Suzuki, Tokyo. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
Literature
W. George, Maillol, Paris, 1971, p. 94 (another cast illustrated; titled Femme debout). L.L. Kramer, Aristide Maillol, Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, Ph.D. Diss., New York University, September 2000 (another cast illustrated, pl. 260).