SCULPTURES

Title: Une Place au Soleil (1960)
Object Name: Sculpture
Maker: César b.1921 (Primary maker)
César 1921-98 (artist)
Date Made: 1960
1960
Description: The French sculptor Cesar Baldaccini, who was born in Marseilles, is known simply as 'Cesar.' He is, perhaps, best known for his 'compressions,' of the mid-1950s, made by densely compressing car bodies. In its use of scrap metals this piece is characteristic of Cesar's work of the early 1960s when he utilized materials which would formerly have been considered beneath the dignity of art.
Materials: iron, welded
Catalogue Number: BELUM.U969
Copyright: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2017.

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