La Rivière (Maillol)

La Rivière
Artist	Aristide Maillol
Year	1938-39; completed 1943
Type	lead
Dimensions	136.5 cm × 230 cm × 170 cm (53+3⁄4 in × 90 in × 66 in)
Location	various

La Rivière (The River) is a lead or bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol.^[1]

Location

There are examples at the Carrousel Garden^[2] in Paris; Citygarden^[3] in St. Louis, Missouri; the Museum of Modern Art^[4] in New York City; the Norton Simon Museum^[5] in Pasadena; Kunsthalle Hamburg,^[6] Hamburg; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;^[7] and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia,^[8] among others held in private collections. A version is also located in the Talacker neighborhood of Zürich.

Bronze example

References

1. "The River, (sculpture)." SIRIS
2. "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Oeuvre". www.musee-orsay.fr.
3. "Aristide Maillol - Citygarden". Retrieved May 17, 2024.
4. "MoMA | the Collection | Aristide Maillol. The River. Begun 1938-39; completed 1943 (Cast 1948)". Archived from the original on 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
5. "Search the Collection » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org.
6. "artomaniak: Kunst-Stück der Woche: Aristide Maillol - Der Fluss. Oder: Wie man im Alltag über Kunst stolpern kann". October 30, 2012.
7. "La Rivière (The River), All Works, MFAH Collections". Retrieved May 17, 2024.
8. "La Riviere (Primary Title) – (70.16) – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts". Retrieved May 17, 2024.

External links

• wtfArtHistory.com: "A river stabbed in the back, La Rivière by Aristide Maillol"

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