biography
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César
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in full César Baldaccini
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pronunciation:
[sayzah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1921–98)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Marseille, S France. The son of an Italian immigrant barrel-maker, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Institut des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Using mainly scrap iron and particularly crushed cars, he created assemblages and became known with works such as Petit Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1957), L'Homme de St Denis (1958), and Yellow Buick (1961). Commissioned by Peugeot, he produced The Champions (1985), a sculpture of four crashed racing cars, and for the Venice bienniale (1995) a huge monument made of crushed cars. |
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