Aristide Maillol (Signed copy)

From the library of British artist and sculptor David Heathcote

Author

Bertrand Lorquin

Publisher

Thames and Hudson, London, 1995

Printing Details

First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 28 × 24.5cm, 199pp.

From the library of British artist David Heathcote (b.1931), with his handwritten name in pencil to the ffep. He studied at the Canterbury College of Art before completing his training at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Keith Vaughan and Claude Rogers. Heathcote is a multi-disciplinary artist, including paintings, prints, and sculpture. His artistic style has been shaped by the twenty years which he spent living in Zimbabwe and Nigeria at the beginning of his career (his first solo exhibition was held in Zimbabwe in 1961). Other notable exhibitions and galleries include the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the RBA Gallery in London in 1958, the Ahmadu Bello University and British Council Galleries in Nigeria, the Beckel Odille Boïcos Gallery in Paris, and at GV Art in London.

Aristide Maillol was an artist with grand ideas. His beautiful and harmonious sculptures—primarily of the female nude—hark back to the ideals of classical Greek art, stressing the static and monumental qualities of the human form, exquisite in their simplicity. Yet this simplicity also points towards a more modern artistic view, an art which paved the way for abstraction and modernism. Widely regarded as among the greatest of 20th-century sculptors, Maillol's work appears in museums all over the world. This monograph examines Maillol's life, illustrating and describing the main body of his work. Placing him in chronological context, the book gives a picture of his evolution as an artist and provides insight into the thoughts and motivations behind his work. Following each stage of his life, it shows the development from the early work—oil paintings and wooden sculptures—to the life-sized sculptures of his mature years.

Condition

Good plus condition. There is some light foxing and finger-marking to the page edges, and some light spotting to the boards and prelims. Otherwise, the book remains in strong readable condition.