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Lot 3236 - A215 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 28. November 2025, 04.30 PM

ARISTIDE MAILLOL

(1861 Banyuls-sur-Mer 1944)
Jeune fille se voilant les yeux. 1900.
Bronze, brown patina.
Signed, monogrammed, numbered and with the foundry stamp on the reverse: ARISTIDE / MAILLOL / M / 2 / CIRE VALSUANI PERDUE.
H 22 cm.

Certificate:
Olivier Lorquin, Paris, 9 September 2025.

Provenance:
- Mr. & Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles, ca. 1965.
- Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles.
- Private collection.
- Giraud/Pissarro/Ségalot, Paris.
- Collection of Fanny and Bernard Watel, Lausanne, acquired in the above gallery on 10 June 2002 and by descent to the present owner.

Literature:
- Heinrich Appel: Maillol, Basel 1939, no. 6.
- George Waldemar: Aristide Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel 1964, p. 246, no. 140.
- Henri Frère: Gespräche mit Maillol, Frankfurt 1961, no. 234.
- Cf. John Rewald: Aristide Maillol 1861–1944, Paris 1939, p. 166 (plaster cast).

We thank Olivier Lorquin for confirming the authenticity of the work.

CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)

Sold for CHF 30 000 (including buyer's premium)