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Female Nude with Arms Raised
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French, 1861–1944)
French (Paris)
20th century
after 1930
Object Place: Europe, France
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
30.4 x 11.3 x 11 cm (11 15/16 x 4 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Eva Louise Merrill
Accession Number1997.127
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
These three bronze statuettes illustrate in miniature Aristide Maillol’s artistic ambitions and concerns. Over the course of a long career, Maillol concentrated almost exclusively on the theme of the female nude-kneeling, reclining, or standing. Maillol sought the general rather than the particular, the smooth over the rough, and the simple over the complex, striving for a timeless, ideal vision of the female form as an expression of pure beauty.
DescriptionRedution of a sculpture of 1930. Bronze with marble base. Nude female figure standing with proper right foot resting on raised portion of base. Her arms are raised, bent at the elbows, and her hands hold her upswept hair. Rectangular gray marble base.
ProvenanceJaap Allen Vandenbergh (b. 1908 – d. 1958), Andover, MA; 1958, by inheritance to his widow, Eva Louise Vandenbergh (later Mrs. Ezra Merrill) (b. 1922 – d. 1997), Boston; 1997, bequest of Eva Louise Merrill to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 1997)