About This Artwork

Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
French, 1861-1944

Enchained Action, c. 1906

Bronze
47 1/2 x 28 x 21 in. (121.2 x 71 x 53.3 cm)
Signed front of base: "AM", inscribed rear of base: "Rudier Fondeur Paris"
Wirt D. Walker Fund, 1955.29

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Baltimore, Museum of Art, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture from Rodin to 1969, December 2, 1969–February 1, 1970, p. 32 (ill.), p. 112.

Chicago, Art Institute, Chalk and Chisel: Sculptors’ Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago, September 12–December 12, 1985.

Publication History

A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo, vol. LXXXIV (September 1966), p. 223 (ill.), p. 225.

Ownership History

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by 1955. Purchased by Art Institute, March 1955.