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It is in his native village of Banyuls that Aristide Maillol often found his inspiration.

This emblematic work, which in its time impressed his contemporaries with its modernity, is one of his last compositions, seven years before his accidental death in 1944.” It comes to represent a little the allegory of the Sardana, of unification and reunion, and Maillol liked to sculpt for works on the seafront and there all these works put in front of the sea, it’s magnificent“, exclaims Olivier Capell, the deputy mayor in charge of Culture.

Recently inaugurated, it is one of the many statues of the artist that can be admired outdoors. The Three Nymphs of the Prairie are the work of a child of the country, Aristide Maillol, who after the death of Auguste Rodin in 1917, was the most important sculptor on the European artistic scene. Like the Three Graces of mythology, three nymphs, hand in hand, with proud eyes, each wearing a crown of flowers, took their place on the esplanade of the Banyuls seafront.