Sculptor from France (1861–1944)
A painter who didn't touch clay in earnest until his forties, then became one of the century's most influential sculptors—shaping how Picasso, Matisse, and Moore thought about form.
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol was born December 8, 1861, in French Catalonia. He started as a painter with a keen eye for decorative arts, working in that vein through his thirties. Only in his early forties did sculpture pull him in, and once it did, the shift was total. His forms carried enough weight that they bent the trajectories of Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Henry Moore. He died September 27, 1944, decades into the fame that had eluded him as a painter.
Sourced, dated quotes from Aristide Maillol
Mademoiselle, I am told that you look like a Renoir and Maillol [as a model]. I would be happy with a Renoir.
I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other.
The particular does not interest me; I find meaning only in a general idea.
I have a weakness for Egyptian sculpture: its figures are sculptured gods, sculptured ideas. Very different in expression, Hindu sculpture is based on very similar assumptions..
He [ Renoir; Maillol made his bust] was very interested, watching me do his bust. He said to me: 'Every time you touch it, it becomes more alive.
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