Tony Cragg at the private view of Figure out/figure in at Le Louvre in Paris, all photos by Caroline Claisse for Art Observed

Currently on view at the Louvre in Paris are a group of sculptures by leading British contemporary artist Tony Cragg. The works are displayed as a counterpoint to the retrospective of Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Cragg’s sculptures are exhibited in the Cour Marly and the Cour Puget. A featured work of the exhibition is Versus (2010), a work especially commissioned to be displayed under I.M. Pei’s pyramid. The work will be stationed there for one year.

Dealer Thaddaeus Ropac with Elbow (2008)

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