Large Sculpture By Claude Viseux

Imposing sculpture in aluminum and bronze signed by sculptor Claude Viseux. It dates from the early 1960s. An architect by training, Claude Viseux (1927-2009) was first a painter. It was the great Parisian merchant René Drouin who was the first to encourage him to show the other facet of his art: his work on metal. From 1954, his protean, dreamlike, fantastic sculpture, which is part of the surrealist vein (he is the friend of Max Ernst, Man Ray, Francis Ponge, Henri Michaux ...) will be crowned by an exhibition in New York. in the Leo Castelli Gallery. An eminent member of a certain French school (César, Féraud, Tinguely, etc.), he developed a unique artistic path, marked by his refusal to choose a form, moving from architecture to sculpture, not forguetting painting.