Enchained Action

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1906

Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
French, 1861-1944

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol
Title: Enchained Action
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.: 1901–1911
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed front of base: "AM", inscribed rear of base: "Rudier Fondeur Paris"
Dimensions: 121.2 × 71 × 53.3 cm (47 1/2 × 28 × 21 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1955.29
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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

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.

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

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