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Aristide Maillol (April 8, 1861 - September 27,
1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.

Maillol was born on at Banyuls-sur-Mer,
Roussillon, France near the Mediterranean Sea. He
studied in Paris, under renowned teacher Antoine
Bourdelle and at the École des Beaux Arts.

Aristide Maillol played an important role in the
development of sculpture, from Romanticism to the
modern sculptors of the twentieth-century. He is
best known for his substantial, full-breasted
female nudes. This tradition would be taken to
extremes by Gaston Lachaise, who thereby moved
sculpture closer to abstract art.

The paintings of his contemporaries Pierre Puvis
de Chavannes and Paul Gauguin gave direction to
his own painting and pointed out to him the need
for the decorative elements to predominate in a
work of art. He decided to manufacture tapestries
and to that end started a small studio in his home
town of Banyuls, employing village girls on the
weaving and using home-made dyes.

He died in a car accident. While driving back home
during a rain shower, the car in which he was a
passenger skidded off the road and overturned.
Dina Vierny, Maillol's companion during the last
10 years of his life, established the Maillol
Museum in Paris.