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© Estate of Aristide Maillol / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Aristide Maillol
French, 1861-1944
La Nuit (Night), 1902-1909 (cast executed 1939)
lead
Edition: 1/6
overall: 41 1/2 x 24 x 43 1/2 inches (105.41 x 60.96 x 110.49 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
James G. Forsyth Fund, 1939
1939:10.1
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sold by G. Jacquart, Paris to Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, August 28, 1939Class
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This information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms
Night is the result of Aristide Maillol’s interpretation of the somber and heavy eighteenth-century sculptures he encountered in the gardens of Versailles outside of Paris. It is composed of a series of lines that both represent a figure and evoke the shape of a cube. The model for this work was the artist’s wife. Her pose is simultaneously brooding and powerful. In 1909, upon viewing an earlier cast of Night in an exhibition, sculptor Auguste Rodin remarked, “One forgets too easily that the human body is an architecture, a living architecture.”
Label from Picasso: The Artist and His Models, November 5, 2016–February 19, 2017
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