GUILLAUME Lamia.
Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951): An art in the service of the Republic.
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| N° d'inventaire | 29545 |
| Format | 21 x 29.6 |
| Détails | 160 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Gent, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789461617880 |
To mark the centenary of the installation of two sculpted groups decorating the city of Mâcon, The Harvesters and the War Memorial, created by Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878-1951), the Ursulines Museum is dedicating its first retrospective to this artist. This will bring together more than 260 works, paintings, sculptures, medals, as well as preparatory sketches and matrices, from public and private collections, brought together to evoke the diversity of his work.
The choice of a sculptor still very present in the public space of Saône-et-Loire. Author of several funerary sculptures in the city's Saint-Brice cemetery, he also worked on the creation of commemorative monuments of the Great War in the communes of Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Charnay-lès-Mâcon, Charolles and Nantua. Associated with the decoration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Saône-et-Loire in 1911, he executed a bas-relief to the glory of local agriculture, Le Pressoir.
The choice of a sculptor still very present in the public space of Saône-et-Loire. Author of several funerary sculptures in the city's Saint-Brice cemetery, he also worked on the creation of commemorative monuments of the Great War in the communes of Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Charnay-lès-Mâcon, Charolles and Nantua. Associated with the decoration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Saône-et-Loire in 1911, he executed a bas-relief to the glory of local agriculture, Le Pressoir.
The choice of a sculptor still very present in the public space of Saône-et-Loire. Author of several funerary sculptures in the city's Saint-Brice cemetery, he also worked on the creation of commemorative monuments of the Great War in the communes of Saint-Laurent-sur-Saône, Charnay-lès-Mâcon, Charolles and Nantua. Associated with the decoration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Saône-et-Loire in 1911, he executed a bas-relief to the glory of local agriculture, Le Pressoir.