02049

MAILLOL, Aristide

Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1861 - Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrénées-Orientales 1944

Maker: Rudier, Alexis

Pomone

Pomona

plaster original made c. 1910, cast in bronze by 1922

bronze

statue

Dimensions (HxWxD): 65 x 21 ¹⁄₄ x 18 ³⁄₄ in.

on rear of base top right: [monogram] M
on back of base: Alexis Rudier Fondeur, Paris

Credit Line: The Kreeger Museum

Photo credit: courtesy, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, The Kreeger Museum

Provenance

1963, Acquired from Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York
1963-1994, David (1909-1990) and Carmen (1910-2003) Kreeger Collection, Washington
1994, Opening of the Kreeger Museum, Washington

Bibliography

Museum's website, 17 February 2016
1910 Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire, "Vernissage d'automne", L'Intransigeant, Oct. 1910, reprinted in Chroniques d'art, ed. L.-C. Breunig, Paris, 1960, p. 121, 124
1922 Kuhn
Alfred Kuhn, Die Neuere Plastik, Munich, 1922, p. 91
1927 George
Waldemar George, Les albums d'art Druet, Paris, 1927, II, [no paging] illus. [plaster model]
1937 Cladel
Judith Cladel, Aristide Maillol, Paris, 1937, p. 84-85, illus. pl. 21 [plaster]
1939 Rewald
John Rewald, Maillol, London, 1939, p. 16, 18-19, 20, 23, illus. pls. 58, 59
1958 Rosati
James Rosati, "Maillol in Full", Art News, LVII, no. 1, [March 1958], p. 42, illus. p. 43
1963 Selz
Jean Selz, Modern Sculpture, New York, 1963, p. 156, illus. pl; 124, p. 152
1965 George
Waldemar George, Aristide Maillol, Greenwich, CN, 1965, p. 29, 54, 57, 221, illus. p. 162, 163
1966 Fern
Alan Fern, "Modern Masters in Washington", Connoisseur Yearbook, 1966, pl. 30, illus.
1970 Dorra
Henri Dorra, Kreeger Collection, Washington, D.C., 1970, p. 18, 138, illus. p. 139
1976 Sharpe
The Collections of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Edited by Margy P. Sharpe, Introductions by Charles W. Millard, J. Carter Brown, Richard L. Feigen, Warren M. Robbins, Washington, 1976, p. 130-131, repr.

Exhibitions

1958-1960 New York/circulated
Sculpture by Aristide Maillol, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., March 1958 (cat. no. 20, ill.), circulated to Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 15-May 15, 1958, Cleveland Museum of Art, July-August, 1958, Toledo Museum of Art, September 15-October 15, 1958, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 15-December 15, 1958, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, January 15-February 15, 1959, Minneapolis Art Institute, March 1-April 5, 1959, City Museum of St. Louis, April 24-May 24, 1959, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, September 10-October 10, 1959, Los Angeles County Museum, November 3-December 20, 1959, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, January 17-February 14, 1960

1963-1967 Washington
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, October 1963-1967

Related works

1976 Sharpe, p. 130:
The original plaster from which this bronze was cast was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1910, where it was very favorably received. Ivan A. Morosoff, a Moscow collector, ordered a model cast in bronze and commissioned three other figures, to form a group known as the "Four Seasons" [Pomona, Spring, Summer and Flora]. The bronze cast was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1922.
This is one of the six original bronzes made from the plaster model. (Apart from the one made for Morosoff, others are in Stockholm, and in private collections in France and Winterthur, Switzerland.) This figure not only inspired the commission for the "Four Seasons" but also served as the basis for such works as the Draped Pomona (1922), the War Memorial at Elne (c. 1925) annd the Pomona with Lowered Arms (1937).