Aristide Maillol

Last night in Paris a homage was held for Dina Vierny, the celebrated muse of French sculptor Aristide Maillol, who spent her life promoting his oeuvre and renown, eventually creating the superb Musée Maillol on the rue de Grenelle in Paris.

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Homage to Dina Vierny, An Artist's Muse 2009

Dina Vierny, the model whose ample flesh and soft curves inspired the sculptor Aristide Maillol, rejuvenating his career, and who eventually founded a museum dedicated to his work, died on Jan. 20 in Paris.

Archive 2009-01-01 The Year in Pictures 2009

Juries of well-known artists, including Paul Signac and Aristide Maillol, awarded the prizes to fellow painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.

Florence Meyer Blumenthal. 2009

Her sculptures are characterized by full, rounded shapes, possibly echoing the French sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861 – 1944), to whose work she turned with a sensitivity far from academicism.

Antonietta Rapha��l. 2009

Dina Vierny, the model whose ample flesh and soft curves inspired the sculptor Aristide Maillol, rejuvenating his career, and who eventually founded a museum dedicated to his work, died on Jan. 20 in Paris.

Dina Vierny. 1920 - 2009. (A Life Well Lived) The Year in Pictures 2009

It's also where Aristide Maillol is buried with one of his statues of Ms. Vierny forever looking over him.

Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Homage to Dina Vierny, An Artist's Muse 2009

The monotony of the long, neutral passageway is relieved by alcoves for art, including works by Jacques Lipchitz, Toshiko Takaezu and Aristide Maillol, whose bronze nude is on loan from the building's benefactors, Ruth and Raymond Perelman.

An Expansion a Quaker Could Love 2007

Once when von Sternbergdirector of The Blue Angel and Moroccowas hospitalized in London, instead of flowers Alex brought an important large bronze of a woman by Aristide Maillol to my rooms, with a charming note which said that he thought I could deal with women better than he could.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Once when von Sternbergdirector of The Blue Angel and Moroccowas hospitalized in London, instead of flowers Alex brought an important large bronze of a woman by Aristide Maillol to my rooms, with a charming note which said that he thought I could deal with women better than he could.

The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

Aristide Maillol is so obviously the best sculptor alive that to people familiar with his work there is something comic about those discussions in which are canvassed the claims of Mestrovic and Epstein, Archipenko and Bourdelle.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922