HOMME OISEAU César Baldaccini

"... it is because it fully identifies with all the potentialities of a precise, historically connoted system of production, that Caesar's approach goes beyond the particular plane of individual adventure and embodies the future of the contemporary sculpture in the permanence of its worldliness...„
Pierre Restany Extract from CÉSAR, 1988, Editions de la Différence

Born January 1, 1921 in Marseille, César (real name César Baldaccini) is a sculptor belonging to the New Realists movement and the Nice school. Trained at the Paris School of Fine Arts where he met Hiquily, Guino, Féraud and Arman, at this time he created his first sculptures in welded scrap metal, several of which were purchased to join the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art ( Bat, 1954) and the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (The Scorpion, 1955).