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Torso of L'Ile de France

1921

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol, Alexis Rudier

One of the major figures of twentieth-century sculpture, Aristide Maillol, is best known for his representations of the female form. This torso, one of the few studies cast in the sculptor's lifetime, is a personification of the Île-de-France (France's capital region surrounding Paris). Depicted striding through water, the figure emanates a quiet, confident power.

Artist: Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (French, 1861 - 1944)
Maker: Alexis Rudier (French, 1854 - 1897)
Title: Torso of L'Ile de France
Date: 1921
Place of Creation: Paris
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 30 x 14 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 35.6 x 56.5 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection
Accession Number: 1974.9

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May 12–June 24, 1979; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 22–September 2, 1979; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 5–November 18, 1979. “Modern European Sculpture 1918–1945: Unknown Beings and Other Realities,” no. 38.
Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, July 4, 1981–May 2, 1982. “Rodin Rediscovered,” no. 363.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), October 28, 2017–January 7, 2018. “Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World,” no. 25
Elsen, Albert E., Modern European Sculpture, 1918-1945: Unknown Beings and Other Realities, exh. cat. (New York: George Braziller, Inc. in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1979), p. 166, fig. 3, p. 181, no. 38.
Elsen, Albert E., Rodin Rediscovered, exh. cat. (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1981), p. 342, repr., no. 363.
Hobhouse, Janet, The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1988), p. 19, fig. 6.
Graham, Lanier, Goddesses in Art (New York, London, Paris: Artabras, 1997), p. 91, repr. p. 99.
Dreyfus, Renée, ed., Legion of Honor: Selected Works (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2007), p. 75, repr.
Brinkmann, Vinzenz, Renée Dreyfus, and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, eds., Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Delmonico Books: Munich, London, and New York), p. 117, repr., no. 25, entry by Renée Dreyfus.

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