Buy Aristide Maillol Art from David Barnett Gallery

Aristide Maillol was born on December 8th 1861 in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. He was a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. He was interested in art from an early age and wanted to become a painter. In 1885, Maillol was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris where he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens, Gerome, and Cabanel. Disenchanted by the teaching of Fine Arts and interested in the decorative arts and the work of Paul Gauguin and Maurice Denis, Maillol took an interest in tapestry around 1893. He regularly exhibited at the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-arts where he sent tapestries, wood carvings, small sculptures and enamelled ceramics. In 1895, he created a tapestry workshop in Banyuls. Beginning in 1900, Maillol was close to the Nabis artists Maurice Denis, Ker Xavier Roussel, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard (and later, Henri Matisse). At that time, he turned exclusively to sculpture. In 1902, the art dealer Ambrose Vollard organized Maillol's first solo exhibition of 3...