Spring without head and arms
This sculpture is related to Maillol's figure of Spring, one of a group called the Seasons (Spring, Summer, Flora and Pomona), commissioned by the Russian collector Ivan Morosoff in 1909. These four figures were ordered to be placed in the four corners of the White Salon in his villa in Moscow. The Metropolitan Museum's plaster seems to have been cast from an original plaster model for Spring by the sculptor for an exhibition at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo in 1925.
Artwork Details
- Title: Spring without head and arms
- Artist: Aristide Maillol (French, Banyuls-sur-Mer 1861–1944 Perpignan)
- Date: modeled ca. 1909, cast 1925
- Culture: French
- Medium: Cast plaster, with blue-green patina
- Dimensions: Overall (with base): 58 1/4 × 16 × 10 in. (148 × 40.6 × 25.4 cm);
Overall (base): 1 3/4 × 10 5/8 × 11 in. (4.4 × 27 × 27.9 cm) - Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Marquand Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of the sculptor
- Object Number: 55.21.13
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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