Word: maillol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...
...chose were from eras when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...
They were the work of a man ten years dead, but still roundly reviled and praised. Some art critics have ranked Gaston Lachaise with such recent greats as Rodin and Maillol, and just before Lachaise died, Manhattan's high-powered, streamlined Museum of Modern Art honored him with the sort of retrospective show it reserves for its own short list of probable immortals...
Selma Burke, a Negro sculptress and onetime pupil of France's Aristide Maillol, won a nationwide competition to design the plaque. Said she, explaining the less-than-speaking likeness: "I had to make up my mind to show . . . three or four things which I felt he meant to me and millions of others: strength, determination, and that look of going-forwardness...