Summer. Artist: Aristide Maillol (French, Banyuls-sur-Mer 1861-1944 Perpignan). Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall (wt confirmed): 63 1/2 x 28 x 18 in., 231lb. (161.3 x 71.1 x 45.7 cm, 41 1/4 in.). Date: modeled 1911, cast probably ca. 1911.In 1905 Auguste Rodin arranged a meeting between Maillol and the German diplomat and collector Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937) at the shop of the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939). In the following years, Count Kessler did much to further Maillol's success as a sculptor, and in 1908 he took Maillol on a tour of Greece. Maillol had, in fact, already begun to draw heavily on antique sculptural sources for his models, but chose to apply only the structural principles of Greek sculpture to his monumental female nudes.Summer is one of the four life-sized personifications that were commissioned by the Russian collector of avant garde art Ivan Morozov (1871-1921) on the recommendation of the Nabis artist Maurice Denis (1870-1943). The seri

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Summer. Artist: Aristide Maillol (French, Banyuls-sur-Mer 1861-1944 Perpignan). Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall (wt confirmed): 63 1/2 x 28 x 18 in., 231lb. (161.3 x 71.1 x 45.7 cm, 41 1/4 in.). Date: modeled 1911, cast probably ca. 1911.In 1905 Auguste Rodin arranged a meeting between Maillol and the German diplomat and collector Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937) at the shop of the Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939). In the following years, Count Kessler did much to further Maillol's success as a sculptor, and in 1908 he took Maillol on a tour of Greece. Maillol had, in fact, already begun to draw heavily on antique sculptural sources for his models, but chose to apply only the structural principles of Greek sculpture to his monumental female nudes.Summer is one of the four life-sized personifications that were commissioned by the Russian collector of avant garde art Ivan Morozov (1871-1921) on the recommendation of the Nabis artist Maurice Denis (1870-1943). The seri

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