Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Torse sur un dauphin
signed with the artist's monogram, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'M 2/6 Alexis Rudier. Fondeur. Paris.' (on the reverse)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1910; this version cast in the artist's lifetime in a numbered edition of six
Provenance
Arnold L. Haskell C.B.E., Bath and London, by 1963. Private collection, United Kingdom.
Literature
J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, p. 166 (another cast illustrated p. 94). G. Waldemar, Aristide Maillol, New York, 1965, p. 233 (another cast illustrated pl. 161).
Exhibited
Bristol, City Art Gallery, The Arnold L Haskell Collection of Sculptures, May - June 1963, no. 50.