Art@Site www.artatsite.com Aristide Maillol La Nuit
Artist:

Aristide Maillol

Title:

La Nuit

Year:
1908
Adress:
Jardins des Tuileries
Website:
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This bronze statue called La Nuit that was produced by the famous French sculptor Aristide Maillol, and has been replicated for numerous places throughout the world, which makes it one of his most recognised works.
Tthe bronze statue called La Nuit, which translates to The Night in English, and this was realised by the French sculptor Aristide Maillol back in 1902 with different casts produced up to around 1908, although there are also many replicas that have been produced since.
The statues that Maillol produced later in his life all concentrated on the female form in a classical style with an emphasis on a stable form.
Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol was born in the December of 1861 in southern France and initially studied painting, then he took up tapestry design, yet later went into carving and then in his more mature career he started producing monumental sculptures, with this statue being one of his first major pieces of art in this form.
The famous French sculptor Aristide Maillol was born in Roussillon in the December of 1861, moved to Paris to study art in 1881, but unfortunately he died in a car accident in Banyuls within the Pyrenees in September 1944.