Trois pointes
1959
Henri-Georges Adam
This bronze sculpture resembles a rock, weathered and worn by the sea and sand. Henri-Georges Adam created the work after several stays on the coast of Brittany. The sculpture is solid and robust, but at the same time the movement of the sea is contained in it.
Details
- Plan number: C10
- Zone: Collection pavilion
- Title: Trois pointes
- Creator: Henri-Georges Adam
- Date: 1959
- Material: bronze, patina
- Acquisition: purchase
- Object number: MID.B.167
During the 1950s, the artist worked on a series of “engraved sculptures”, of which “The Three Points” is a fine example. Here, he combines the three-dimensionality of the sculpture with two-dimensional lines that he applies with chisels.
This work of art is later developed on a larger scale, even up to more than four metres, in pink and white marble.
“The Three Points” is part of a series of seven works, which the artist calls “mutations marines” or “changes of the sea”. By working the surface of his sculpture with long parallel lines, Adam evokes the image of the rising and retreating of the sea, of the eternal cycle of the tides.
The French artist Henri-Georges Adam starts in his father’s jewellery workshop. He then focuses on drawing and engraving and from 1942 onwards he starts sculpting, but he also designs tapestries, for example. His style varies between surrealist and abstract. His best-known works are monuments on an architectural scale.
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