Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol (1861 – 1944) was a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

Josep Pla said of Maillol, "These archaic ideas, Greek, were the great novelty Maillol brought into the tendency of modern sculpture. What you need to love from the ancients is not the antiquity, it is the sense of permanent, renewed novelty, that is due to the nature and reason."