Frenchman Aristide Maillol (pronounced Mayoll) made a long false start. For ten years he tried to paint; for another six he designed tapestries. When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose.
A lover of classic art who calls Greece his second home, Maillol...
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