Olympic Games . Sculptor Henri Maillot . Beautiful Set Of 8 Framed Drawings .

Henri Maillot-Rosély .. born in 1950 . lives and works in Reunion Island since 1992 and divides his time between his studios in Marseille . Beijing and Rivière des Galets .. mainly focused on sculpture Henri Maillot uses a wide variety of means including drawing assemblages collage installation painting always involving the human body . his Thinkers exhibited in Shanghai inspired by Rodin are a good example of the paradoxical mixture of grace brute force and roundness which is the sculptor's mark . he is interested in the state of the work just before its completion to what this unfinished leaves to the imagination .. on the occasion of the Olympic Games the French Cultural Center of Beijing presented a series of his creations on the theme of sport .. the body in action is at the center of the artist's work . the athletes are represented in situation and without their accessories to highlight the symbolic dimension of the sporting attitude . "capturing the movement in its burst, preserving its original spontaneity before the form freezes it, that's what I'm trying to achieve" explains the sculptor . .

the 8 drawings are signed and dated in pencil
dimensions of the frames 24.5 / 24.5 cm
price for the set