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ARISTIDE MAILLOL La Vague.
Woodcut on thin yellow wove paper, 1895-98. 165x215 mm; 6 1/2x7 5/8 inches, wide margins. An artist's proof in the first state (of 2), aside from the edition of 60. Signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce and early woodcut.
Born in a small fishing village in the French Pyrenees, Maillol (1861-1944) moved to Paris in 1885 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Despite training with acclaimed painters Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), he quickly became disillusioned by the restrictive academic environment. In 1894, he joined the Nabis, a group of young artists influenced by the decorative elements of Art Nouveau and Impressionism, and began exhibiting with them. Maillol became known for his stylized, flattened depictionas of women, like the present woodcut; as well as for his modernized femlae nude sculptures treated with classical emphasis. Guérin 8.
