Baigneuse nue, or Nude bather, (foreground), bronze sculpture, 1921, forged by E Godard, by Aristide Maillol, 1861-1944, in the Musee Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer, in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Pyrenees-Orientales, Catalogne du Nord, France. In the background are Torse de l'ete (left) and Torse de Venus 1918 (right). The museum was founded in 1994 at La Metairie, the farm where Maillol lived at the end of his life. Banyuls-sur-Mer is a small seaside town first settled by the Greeks in 400 BC, on the Vermilion Coast near the Spanish border. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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