Antoine Pevsner (12 April 1962) was a Russian-born sculptor and the older brother of Alexii Pevsner and Naum Gabo. Both Antoine and Naum are considered pioneers of twentieth-century sculpture.

Biography

Pevsner was born as Natan Borisovich Pevzner in

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, into a Jewish family. Among the originators of and having coined the term,

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, and pioneers of Kinetic Art, Pevsner and his brother Naum Gabo discovered a new use for metals and welding and made a new marriage of art and mathematics. Pevsner said: ''"Art must be inspiration controlled by mathematics. I have a need for peace, symphony, orchestration."'' He was one of the first to use the blowtorch in sculpture, welding copper rods onto sculptural forms and along with his brother, Naum, he issued the

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in 1920. He left the Soviet Union in 1923 and moved to Paris, where he would live for the rest of his life. Among the honors he received were a retrospective at the

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(1956-7) and the

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(1961). Pevsner is buried in Paris.

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