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P6
Plate 6 from L'AVANGUARDIA INTERNAZIONALE, Volume 2/L'AVANT-GARDE INTERNATIONALE, Volume 2/THE INTERNATIONAL AVANT-GARDE, Volume 2
1962 · Soft ground etching, printed in black
plate 6 1/16 x 4 1/2" (15.4 x 11.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Philippe Hiquily
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Philippe Hiquily was a French sculptor whose welded steel and iron constructions evolved from postwar abstraction into a distinctive organic expressionism. Working primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, he developed monumental forms that balanced geometric precision with biomorphic suggestion, their surfaces animated by oxidation and patina. His work occupied a space between constructivism and natural form, emphasizing the material properties and weathering of steel itself as an integral part of the work's meaning and presence.
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