Collection: Aristide Maillol   1861 - 1944  Follow artist

One of the greatest sculptors and painters of modern art, Aristide Maillot studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under both Cabanel and Jerome. An exceptional draughtsman, Maillol's original woodcuts and lithographs are as superb as his drawings, pastels and sculptures. Most of Maillol's woodcuts were conceived as art for some of the greatest illustrated books of the twentieth century. His woodcuts adorn such classic works as Ovid's, Art of Love (1935), Virgil's, Eclogue (1926), Daphne and Chloe (1937) and Les Georgiques (1937-1943). Aristide Maillol's work can be viewed in practically every great art museum in the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.