First Book: Two Nymphs Dancing (Les nymphs de la grotte) Possibly 1937

Aristide Maillol made this print, Two Nymphs Dancing, and you can see his absolute genius for the line. The nymph on the right, she's got this incredible sense of movement - her weight is pressing into the ball of her foot, and that little flick of the line at the back of her calf? It's like she's about to leap right off the page. And it's all done with the bare minimum of marks. Maillol really understands the body, not just how it looks, but how it *feels* to be in a body, moving through space. The figures almost look like a frieze on an ancient Greek vase, but with a modern sensibility, and I always think of Picasso when I see Maillol’s nudes, that same sense of monumentality and grace. Art’s just one big conversation, right?