Monument to composer Debussy

Mediums: bronze.
Location: the garden of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Paris (France).

The monument to the composer is extremely concise: for a moment, a crouched naked woman smoothly runs her hands around herself. She is associated with a musical notation, which has absorbed all the bottomlessness of music. She is music. Laconic in his works, Maillol was convinced that the form and the author’s thought, the purity of lines and the harmony of proportions are of great importance. In the master’s works, they are impeccable; the “return” to classical sculpture, when art was strongly inclined toward abstraction, was considered by critics and experts as revolutionary. A copy of the work created in the 1950s is installed at the Metropolitan Opera (New York).