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This depiction of a woman’s torso is both classicizing and realistic. Although motivated by the aesthetics of the fragment, the cuts removing the arms, legs and head seem to have an abstract rhythm. Both Maillol and Brancusi, roughly contemporaries and both working in Paris at the same time, take quite different approaches to the depiction of the female torso. Maillol’s Torso, a naturalistic rendition of the female body, is made by skillfully placed cuts reflecting what had become thought of as a classical form. Brancusi, on the other hand, reflects with Torso (n. 10) on the history of creation and with Torso of a Young Girl (n. 39) on the creation of physical presence by the means of abstracted forms.*
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