La Grande Musicienne, Bronze sculpture in Tuileries Garden, France.
La Grande Musicienne is a bronze sculpture by French artist Henri Laurens that portrays a musician through abstract geometric shapes. The work sits in the Tuileries Garden and displays the simplified forms typical of modernist sculpture.
Henri Laurens created La Grande Musicienne around 1937. In 2000 it was installed in the Tuileries Garden along with about a dozen other contemporary works, replacing Hector Lemaire's Le Soir.
The sculpture's title refers to a musician, though the bronze figure holds no instrument; the raised, bent arm suggests the gesture of playing. It was placed in 2000 among a dozen other contemporary works added to the Tuileries, replacing Hector Lemaire's Le Soir.
The sculpture sits in the Tuileries Garden, accessible via metro stations Concorde and Tuileries with several bus lines nearby. Walking through the garden you can reach the work easily and discover other artworks along the way.
La Grande Musicienne was placed in the Tuileries in 2000, when about a dozen other contemporary works were installed in the garden. It took the spot of Le Soir, a work by Hector Lemaire. The bronze dates from around 1937, the year before Laurens made his large relief for the Palais de Tokyo.
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