Tombeau d aristide maillol biography
WALK THE REGION……With Kate and Ted Hiscock
Banyuls-sur-Mer: Tombeau de Maillol to Col de Banyuls & back
14km (9m) – 4 hours
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This walk concentrates on the deep valleys behind the sea-side wine producing town of Banyuls-sur-Mer and in particular on the countryside that inspired the renowned artist and sculptor Aristide Maillol, (who curiously is virtually unknown in English speaking countries).
The Col de Banyuls looking back into France
It starts at Maillol’s tomb and museum and proceeds up the valley to the ridge between France & Spain known as the Col of Banyuls, which has unrecognised modern historical significance, being an escape route during the 1930s and 1940s in both directions.
The climb is on tarmac roads and at first is gentle but quite steep for the last few hundred metres to the col. At the top the views over Spain and back towards Banyuls are magnificent.
SUITABLE FOR PUSH CHAIR: THE LAST BIT IS STEEP THOUGH.
“La Mediterrannée” La tombe & Musée de Maillol
The journey to Banyuls-sur-Mer is best done by car. It is possible to travel by bus which drops one at the centre of the town, (or by train to the gare) which extends the walk to the starting point by about 3.5km in each direction, although the going is not hard on level roads. Add an hour to the journey.
Follow the map along the dotted blue route from the sea front in Banyuls-sur-Mer taking care along the winding narrow road that leads to the Musée de Maillol; (it is clearly signed) and then park the car in the car park provided and follow the signs for the museum on foot (leaving the car park to the left).
A winding track with herbal edges follows a mountain stream in winter and a dried pebble ditch in summer to a gate which heralds the secluded and shaded garden of the Maillol Museum. This shrine to Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), a child of Banyuls, is one of the mos Le musée Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer est un musée privé installé dans La Métairie, où le sculpteur Aristide Maillol a passé les dernières années de sa vie. Il s’agit d’une ferme isolée dans la vallée de la Roume à 4 km du centre-ville de Banyuls-sur-Mer dans les Pyrénées-Orientales. À la mort de Maillol, le site est abandonné et se dégrade. Ce n'est que bien plus tard, grâce aux actions conjuguées de sa dernière modèle et muse Dina Vierny et de la ville de Banyuls-sur-Mer, que le sauvetage et la restauration de la métairie peuvent avoir lieu. Un petit musée Maillol y est ouvert au public fin 1994. C'est aujourd'hui un musée géré par la fondation Dina Vierny, qui a créé aussi le musée Maillol de Paris. Le musée présente de nombreuses œuvres et la vie quotidienne d'Aristide Maillol dans la Métairie. On y trouve: Le musée est aussi un centre d'expositions temporaires. Dans le jardin du musée se trouve son tombeau, recouvert d’un bronze de La Méditerranée, une de ses œuvres préférées. Torse de la jeune fille qui marche dans l'eau, 1921. Statuette de femme assise jambe repliée, 1900. Peinture de figure au châle rouge, 1930, huile sur toile. La cuisine de la Métairie. Torse de vénus, 1918 Torse de l'Été, 1911 Baigneuse nue, 1921 Salle à manger de la Métairie, les tapisseries sont de MaillolMusée Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer
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Tombeau d aristide maillol biography
The Musée Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer is a private museum at probity farm of the sculptor Aristide Carver where he spent the last maturity of his life. The farm, "La Métairie", is situated in the Roume valley 4 km from the city soul of Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Rank museum is operated by the Fondation Dina Vierny, which also operates grandeur Musée Maillol in Paris.
Establishment
After Maillol's death in 1944, the site was abandoned and deteriorated. Much later, increase to the combined actions of Maillol's model and muse Dina Vierny allow the city of Banyuls-sur-Mer, the bail out and restoration of the farm took place. A small Maillol museum was opened to the public at ethics end of 1994.
Exhibits
The museum liberality works of Aristide Maillol as successfully as artifacts from his daily existence in La Métairie. Exhibits include:
- 36 bronze and terracotta sculptures
- Lithographs, drawings, paintings, and ceramics
- The dining-room of his mansion at Marly-le-Roi and his kitchen
- His workshop
- Temporary exhibitions
In the garden of the museum is his tomb on which sits a bronze cast of La Méditerranée, one of his favorite works.
Gallery
Torse de L'Ile de France (1921)
Statuette sponsor a seated woman (1900)
Figure painting resume a red shawl (1930)
The kitchen
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Admire the statues of Maillol on the sea front
After the death of Rodin in 1917, to whom he was always opposed in terms of style, Maillol is considered the greatest living French sculptor.
Between the wars, he created four monuments to the dead: in Elne, Céret, Port-Vendres and Banyuls-sur-Mer. The problem of the female nude arises each time and Maillol sometimes covers the forms with a drape, thus reviving a tradition of statuary.
In the 1930s Maillol was famous, he embodied a renewal of sculpture and created the Monument to Debussy, with its exquisitely soft curves. During this period, when he was looking for new inspiration, he met Dina Vierny in 1934, a young girl who embodied his ideal in sculpture and who became his main model for ten years. At once muse, interlocutor and collaborator, she inspired his last monumental sculptures: The Mountain, in 1937, which completes the cycle begun at the beginning of the century, The Air, in 1938, a monument to the memory of the aviators of l’Aéropostale, and then The River, a female body tipped backwards, trying to resist the current that is inexorably dragging it along, and whose face expresses fear. This is the first representation in sculpture of a figure on her back, in unstable balance, a sort of allegory of the troubled times that were to come with the Second World War, during which Maillol retired to Banyuls-sur-Mer.