The Musée Maillol in Banyuls-sur-Mer presents this year, from 11 June to 31 December 2026, Maillol and Greece. Starting from Maillol's voyage to Greece in 1908, this exhibition reveals the close ties that bind the artist to the art of ancient Greece, through an illuminating selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and prints.
This year we invite you on a Mediterranean journey, in the footsteps of Aristide Maillol. This exhibition is devoted to the links the artist maintained with Greece and, more broadly, with Antiquity. At the heart of this project is the journey he undertook to that country with his friend and patron, Count Harry Kessler, from 25 April to 3 June 1908.
Although Maillol only went to Greece in 1908 – the artist was then 47 years old – it would nevertheless be reductive to think that this encounter constitutes a starting point. His gaze was in fact already deeply nourished by Antiquity, discovered notably through his years of training in Paris, during which he attended classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and often visited the collections of the Louvre Museum.