Bather Putting Up Her Hair

Bather Putting Up Her Hair
Bather Putting Up Her Hair
(French, 1861-1944)

Bather Putting Up Her Hair

Date1930
Mediumbronze, ed. 3/6
Dimensionsobject: 61 x 26 1/2 x 22 in. (154.9 x 67.3 x 55.9 cm)
ClassificationSCULPTURE
Credit LineSBMA, Bequest of Wright S. Ludington
Object number1993.1.39
Subject(s)
  • women
  • nudes
Collection
  • 20th century French
  • European
Sub-Collection(s)
  • French
On View
On view
Label TextWright S. Ludington (1900-1992), one of the founders of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and donor of this work, had a clear fascination with the representation of the human body. He would have displayed this work alongside his celebrated collection of Greco-Roman monumental sculpture, delighting in the modernist twist that Maillol put on such venerated classicism. Maillol, a contemporary of Edgar Degas and Pierre Bonnard, as well as lifelong friend of Henri Matisse, was one of the most prolific and successful producers of public sculpture of his generation. During the last decade of his career, he was inspired by his favorite model, Dina Vierny, whose idealized form he repeated in countless allegorical personifications as communicated through the classical staple of the female nude.
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