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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
La Montagne
Alternate Title:
The Mountain
Image View:
Detail of middle of the sculpture and relationship of the two figures
Creator:
Germaine Richier (French sculptor, 1904-1959)
Location:
repository: Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
623, chemin des Gardettes
GPS:
43.70059 7.115085
Date:
1955-1956 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Measurements:
180 cm (height) x 130 cm (width) x 330 cm (length)
Subjects:
abstraction; organic
Description:
The sculptor, draughtswoman and printmaker Germaine Richier was taught by Antoine Bourdelle in Paris between 1925 and 1929, at the same time as Alberto Giacometti. She started to work on remarkable works interesting to entomologists in 1940. This form of figuration was unique, and going to the boundaries of the fantastic. She produced human insects, an imagined world of a prehistoric universe. An oeuvre of metamorphoses, the sculptures of Germain Richier occupy an important place in the art of the 20th century. (Source: Fondation Maeght [website]; https://www.fondatio n-maeght.com/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-RICHIER-MF-LM-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

La Montagne