Look-Out (Vigie)
1959 · Etching
plate (irreg.): 27 7/8 x 19 1/8" (70.8 x 48.5 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 x 22 1/4" (76 x 56.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Henri Georges Adam
Artist
PrintmakingGeometric AbstractionFiguration
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
19
Works in Collection
38
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0
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Ten European Artists
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Master Prints from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Print Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld and Matisse: Jazz: Gift of the Artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
About
Why this artist matters now
Henri Georges Adam was a French sculptor and painter who developed a distinctive approach combining carved stone and bronze with gestural mark-making, negotiating between geometric abstraction and organic figuration. Working during the postwar period, his practice engaged with the reconstruction and modernization of French cultural identity following 1945. His work spans both carved and cast forms alongside painting, creating a body of work that resists pure abstraction in favor of hybrid formal strategies.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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