The Two Wrestlers

Prints and Drawings

c. 1939

Aristide Maillol
French, 1861–1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
Title: The Two Wrestlers
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1934–1944
Medium: Pastel, with brush and gold metallic paint, on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, upper center, in red pastel and gold metallic paint: "VERVE"; signed recto, lower left in composition, in red pastel: "M" [encircled]
Dimensions: 36.6 × 26.7 cm (14 7/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.974
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 142, cat. 101 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 142, cat. 101 (ill.).

Possibly estate of the artist [inscription (M [encircled]; see Lugt Suppl. 1852a) recto, lower left, in red pastel]. Sold, Dina Vierny, Paris, Mar. 1966, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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