Torse de Dina, Aristide Maillol, 1943
Aristide Maillol, retratoAristide MaillolFrança, 1861–1944

Torse de Dina

1943 · Sculpture · 123.2 × 41.9 cm

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Without arms or complete legs, this nude evokes a rediscovered antique sculpture. But the perfectly smooth bronze surface reveals that this is in fact a more modern creation. Her head tilted downward, the figure holds a pensive gaze. The closely observed hairstyle and relatively detailed facial features indicate the artist's desire to capture a particular individual. The viewer is also encouraged to consider the body's elegant lines and robust volumes. Dina Vierny was Aristide Maillol's longtime model, confidant, and collaborator. She began sitting for the sculptor around 1934 and did so until the artist's death in 1944. Most of his sculpture and drawings executed during this period take Vierny as their subject. This sculpture is believed to be one of very few works Maillol executed from life. He rarely sculpted from a live model, instead carving his plasters from sketches based on long sessions with his subject.

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Na vida de Aristide Maillol

A vida inteira
  1. 1940–1944

    The Nazis seize his works

    During the German occupation of France dozens of Maillol's works were seized by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg; the Jeu de Paume database lists thirty of them. His Head of Flora was later found in the hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hitler's art dealer.

  2. 27 September 1944

    The circumstances of his death

    By some accounts, the 82-year-old Maillol died in a car accident: on the way home in a thunderstorm, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and rolled over. Others call the accident the official version and say that the sculptor, having had no news of Dina Vierny, whom he believed arrested (she was Jewish), took his own life.

  3. 27 de setembro de 1944

    Died

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