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PARIS
16 March - 31 July
Sculptures
To mark the occasion the museum has gathered up 101 sculptures, 22 ceramics, 19 works on paper and one painting. the works on display mostly come from the outstanding collection of the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght.
His first ceramics, carried out with Josep Llorens Artigas, are dated 1941. Three years later, Miró created his first bronze sculptures.
In 1964, Joan Miró took part in the creation of the Fondation Maeght where he had finally found a place in which to create monumental works.
The encounter between Joan Miró and Aimé Maeght proved essential. For the very first time, Miró’s sculpture was deliberately linked to both architecture and to nature, an infinite source of inspiration for him: he thus created specifically for the Fondation Maeght a garden of sculptures and of monumental ceramics, a dreamlike world inhabiting the « Labyrinth », and that serves as a reminder that Miró was not only a painter but was also a sculptor.
In 1974, ten years after the opening of the Fondation Maeght, the Muséed’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris exhibited a group of sculptures by Joan Miró. Nearly 40 years later, the Maillol museum is once more placing Miró in that perspective and pays homage to that powerful artist, who, just like Picasso, was simultaneously a painter and a sculptor.
Personnage, bronze, 1970
200 x 120 x 100 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Femme et oiseau, bronze, 1973
154 x 88 x 50 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Tête de femme et oiseau, Bronze, 1972
102 x 70 x 44 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Porte III, Bronze, 1974
233 x 135 x 200 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Photo Galerie Maeght, Paris
Courge, Céramique, 1956
52 x 21 x 21 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Photo Galerie Maeght, Paris
Personnage, Fusain et pastel sur une enveloppe
34 x 42 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Coupe catalane, Céramique, 1956
28 x 23,5 x 13,5 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Photo Galerie Maeght, Paris
Plat enfant noir, Céramique, 1956
Diamètre 37 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Oiseaux dans le soleil, Encre de Chine, lavis d’encre de Chine, aquarelle et gouache sur carton liseré d’or et pailleté argent, 1977
40 x 72,5 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Gouache sur papier, 1979
40 x 72,5 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Personnages, Fusain, craie et pastel sur papier de verre, 1977
25,5 x 21 cm
© Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris 2011
Archives Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul
Photo Claude Germain
Founded by the Dina Vierny Foundation, the Maillol Museum stands as "the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to art.” Dina Vierny was only 15 when sculptor Aristide Maillol asked her to model for him: she thereafter became one of the central subjects in his art, his muse in other words. She inspired a number of other artists including Pierre Bonnard and Henry Matisse.
Later in life, she created the Dina Vierny Gallery which played a huge part in Paris's art scene and the history of modern painting. The sculptures that line the Tuileries gardens were in fact a gift from her collection of Maillol's work. The museum itself was first established in the Hotel Bouchardon, famous for the beautifully-sculpted fountain in its centre.
Aside from works by Maillol himself, the museum also displays a large collection of modern works. Dina Vierny never ceased to acquire works signed the greatest artists of the 20th century. She admire works by Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Maurice Denis and others, also abstract works by Kandinsky and Ivan Poliakoff, and sculptures signed Giliolo.
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