Chapter 5

Marly-le-Roi

           Since he first had come to Paris, it had been his habit to spend the winter months in Banyuls and the rest in Paris. Maillol started the life with Clotilde in Quartier Latin but moved to Villeneuve-Saint-Geroge, about 15 kilometres south-east of Paris, in 1899, when he was 37 years old. There he had his first arelier: rents were cheaper in the suburbs than in Paris. Picasso in his Period of Blue, who was “only in his twenties and slender, delicate and beautiful like a girl” (Cladel 1937, p.162) visited Maillol in Villeneuve-Saint-Geroge and sang Catalonian songs for him. Companionship with Nabis, such as Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Teadee Natanson, Rippl-Ronai Ker-Xavier Roussel and Edward Vuillard, was even more frequent. Many of them lived west of Paris and Roussel and Vuillard invited Maillol to move near.

[To be continued.]

6.     La Méditerranée

7.     Sérénité

Part II

8.     L’Action enchaînée

9.     Rodin

10.   La Nuit

11.   Count Kessler

12.   To Greece

13.   Monument à Cézanne

14.   Maillol at the age of fifty

15.   Craftsmanship

16.   Farmhouse at the Roume valley

17.   The Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil

18.   Monuments aux morts

19.   Maillol at the age of sixty

20.   Ile-de-France and Vénus

21.   Statuettes

22.   Lucile Passavant

23.   Maillol at the age of seventy

24.   Encounter with Dina Vierny

25.   Daphnis et Chloé

26.   Last days of Count Kessler

27.   Two biographies

1) Judith Cladel

2) John Rewald

28.   A trip to Italy

29.   La Montagne

30.   L’Air

31.   La Rivière

32.   Maillol at the age of eighty

33.   Harmonie

34.   Between the Resistance and Nazi

35.   A car accident

36.   Postmortem

Postscript