The Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air is a collection of outdoor sculpture located on the banks of the

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in the 5th arrondissement,

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. The museum opens free of charge. The museum was created in 1980 in the Jardin Tino Rossi to display sculptures from the second half of the twentieth century. It stretches some 600 meters along the beside the Jardin des Plantes, between and

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to just east of

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. The museum currently contains over fifty sculptures, including pieces by

Alexander Archipenko Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American ...

Jean Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born in Straßburg (now Stras ...

César Baldaccini César (born Cesare Baldaccini; 1 January 1921 – 6 December 1998), also occasionally referred to as César Baldaccini (), was a noted French sculptor. César was at the forefront of the Nouveau Réalisme movement with his radical compressio ...

, and

Constantin Brâncuși Constantin Brâncuși (; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian Sculpture, sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century and a pioneer of ...

, as well as the following pieces: * Augustin Cardenas (1927-), ''La Grande Fenêtre'', 1974 *

Marta Colvin Marta Colvin Andrade (1907–1995) was a sculptor from Chillán, Chile. Biography Marta Colvin Andrade was the daughter of James Colvin of Irish descent and Elvira Andrade of Portuguese descent. After the 1939 Chillán earthquake, she lived i ...

(1915-), ''Le Grand Signe'', 1970 * Guy de Rougemont (1935-), ''Interpénétration des deux espaces'', 1975 * Reinout d'Haese (Reinhoud) (1928-), ''Melmoth'', 1966 * Marino di Teana (1920-2012), ''Structure architecturale'', 1973 * Étienne-Martin (

Étienne Martin Étienne Martin (1913–1995) was a French non-figurative sculptor. Biography He was born Henri Étienne-Martin 4 February 1913 in Loriol, Drôme, France. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lyon from 1929 to 1933, where he met Marcel Mi ...

) (1913–1995), ''Demeurre 1'', 1954–1958 *

Sorel Etrog Sorel Etrog, (August 29, 1933 February 26, 2014) was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor. He specialised in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore his f ...

(1933-), ''Fiesole'', 1965–1967 *

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(1921-), ''Sans titre'', 1979 * Yoshikuni Iida (1923-), ''Shining Wings'', 1981 *

Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy ( – ), a figurative French sculptor, was born "Jean Robert" in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had a distinct style, combining abstract elements with the human figure, often in the écorché style of French anatomist ...

(1920-), ''Hydrophage'', 1975 * Micha Laury (1946-), ''Mind Accumulation'', 1988 * Aglaé Libéraki (1923-1985), ''Abellio'', 1971–1973 * Liuba (1923-), ''Animal 82'', 1982 * Liuba (1923-), ''Stèle'', 1977 * Bernard Pagès (1940-), ''Sans titre'', 1988 *

Marta Pan Marta Pan (12 June 1923, Budapest — 12 October 2008, Paris) was a French abstract sculptor of Hungarian origin. Early life Marta Pan was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923. She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest. Work Pan's s ...

(1923-), ''Sculpture'', 1969 * (1927-), ''Sculpture'', 1979 * Antoine Poncet (1928-), ''Ochicagogo'', 1979 *

Nicolas Schöffer Nicolas Schöffer ( hu, Schöffer Miklós; 6 September 1912 — 8 January 1992) was a Hungarian-born French cybernetic artist. Schöffer was born in Kalocsa, Hungary and resided in Paris from 1936 until his death in Montmartre in 1992. He b ...

(1912–1992), ''Chronos 10'', 1978 *

François Stahly François Stahly (March 8, 1911 Konstanz – July 2, 2006 Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,42 ...

(1911-), ''Neptune II'', 1969

References

Insecula description and photographs

* M.-R. Bentein-Stoelen, ''Catalogue de la collection'', Musée de sculpture en plein air, Anvers, 1971. 175 pp. {{authority control Sculpture en Plein Air Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in France Sculpture en Plein Air 1980 establishments in France Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris

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