 aristide joseph bonaventure maillol (; december 8, 1861&nbsp;â september 27, 1944) was a french sculptor, painter, and printmaker.aristide maillol (french, 1861â1944), antoinette le normand-romain, moma, from grove art online, oxford university press, 2009 ==biography==  maillol was born in banyuls-sur-mer, roussillon. he decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to paris in 1881 to study art. after several applications and several years of living with poverty, his enrollment in the Ãcole des beaux-arts was accepted in 1885, and he studied there under jean-lÃ©on gÃ©rÃ´me and alexandre cabanel.cowling, elizabeth; mundy, jennifer (1990). on classic ground: picasso, lÃ©ger, de chirico and the new classicism 1910-1930. london: tate gallery. p. 148. isbn 1-854-37043-x his early paintings show the influence of his contemporaries pierre puvis de chavannes and paul gauguin. gauguin encouraged his growing interest in decorative art, an interest that led maillol to take up tapestry design. in 1893 maillol opened a tapestry workshop in banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in france. he began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895, and within a few years his concentration on sculpture led to the abandonment of his work in tapestry. in july 1896, maillol married clotilde narcisse, one of his employees at his tapestry workshop. their only son, lucian, was born that october. maillolâs first major sculpture, a seated woman, was modeled after his wife. the first version was completed in 1902. that same year, dealer ambroise vollard provided maillol with his first exhibition. [[file:kmm maillol.jpg|thumb|left|300px| air cast 1938, [[krÃ¶ller-mÃ¼ller mus
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