Word: maillol
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...Henning wanted something more. In France he had been impressed by Rodin and Maillol; he had also read the love poems of Ovid. He began to develop a style of his own with small statues of intertwined lovers in clay. He was urged to do major pieces for exhibition. "I don't like exhibitions," grumbled Henning. But he did more figures, and at 44 he let people have a look. The cheers have been ringing in Henning's ears ever since...
Among the bleak, soot-smudged buildings in Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry...
...half a century the white-bearded old master has stood unchallenged at the peak of his art. Every sculptor who could afford his stiff prices ($9,000 nowadays for a life-size figure) sent his work to Rudier. Maillol, Renoir, Bourdelle were all his clients; Rodin would have no other caster. Today, such outstanding European moderns as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Ossip Zadkine are on his list. An expert explains why: "Rudier is unique. He is an artist. He produces a grain and patina almost like human skin. The bronze seems alive...
...orders piled up, but Rudier played no favorites; everyone got the same painstaking effort. The only favoritism he allowed himself was in the works he chose for his country home outside Paris and the figures lining his tiny gallery at Malakoff. There he collected such masterpieces as Maillol's Summer, Renoir's Laundress, Bourdelle's Heracles Archer, Rodin's John the Baptist. About 20 years ago, he cast a beautiful bronze of Rodin's L'Ombre, and ordered it set aside to mark his grave when he dies...
...Maillol, Degas, the English sculptors Eric Gill and Alfred Stevens, and Jo Davidson are among those represented in the show, which will last through March...