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Île de France

Artist Aristide Maillol (French, 1861 - 1944)
Date1925
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 65 1/2 inches (166.37 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Mary Atkins and Ellen St. Clair Estates
Object numberA54-94
SignedSigned with artist’s monogram on top of base, back proper left side: “M” encircled Signed by the foundry on back proper left corner of base: Alexis Rudier. / Fondeur. Paris.
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • Atkins Foyer
Collections
Exhibition History

Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8–June 5, 1960, no. 64, as Ile de France.

Provenance

With Wildenstein and Co., New York, by June 29, 1953–November 19, 1954 [1];

 

Purchased from Wildenstein by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] See letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons to NAMA director Lawrence Sickman, June 29, 1953, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 127, (repro.), as Ile de France

“Realism,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum). 3, no. 1 (1960): 20–21, as Ile de France.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 214, (repro.), as Ile de France.

Michael Churchman and Scott Erbes, High Ideals and Aspirations: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1933–1993 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 80n8, as Ile de France.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 215, (repro.), as Ile de France.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 128, (repro.), as Ile de France.

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