Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air

The Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air is a collection of outdoor sculpture located on the banks of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement, Paris, France. The museum opens free of charge.

The museum was created in 1980 in the Jardin Tino Rossi to display sculptures from the second half of the twentieth century. It stretches some 600 meters along the Quai Saint-Bernard [Wikidata] beside the Jardin des Plantes, between Place Valhubert [Wikidata] and Gare d'Austerlitz to just east of Pont de Sully. The museum currently contains over fifty sculptures, including pieces by Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, César Baldaccini, and Constantin Brâncuși, as well as the following pieces:

Augustin Cardenas (1927-), La Grande Fenêtre, 1974
Marta Colvin (1915-), Le Grand Signe, 1970
Guy de Rougemont (1935-), Interpénétration des deux espaces, 1975
Reinhoud d'Haese (Reinhoud) (1928-), Melmoth, 1966
Marino di Teana (1920-2012), Structure architecturale, 1973
Étienne-Martin (Étienne Martin) (1913–1995), Demeurre 1, 1954–1958
Sorel Etrog (1933-), Fiesole, 1965–1967
Albert Feraud (1921-), Sans titre, 1979
Yoshikuni Iida (1923-), Shining Wings, 1981
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920-), Hydrophage, 1975
Micha Laury (1946-), Mind Accumulation, 1988
Aglaé Libéraki (1923-1985), Abellio, 1971–1973
Liuba (1923-), Animal 82, 1982
Liuba (1923-), Stèle, 1977
Bernard Pagès (1940-), Sans titre, 1988
Marta Pan (1923-), Sculpture, 1969
Ruggero Pazzi [Wikidata] (1927-), Sculpture, 1979
Antoine Poncet (1928-), Ochicagogo, 1979
Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992), Chronos 10, 1978
François Stahly (1911-), Neptune II, 1969

References

Insecula description and photographs
Paris Walking Tours description and photographs
Paris.org entry
M.-R. Bentein-Stoelen, Catalogue de la collection, Musée de sculpture en plein air, Anvers, 1971. 175 pp.

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