Marta Pan (12 June 1923,

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— 12 October 2008,

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) was a French abstract

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of Hungarian origin.

Early life

Marta Pan was born in

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in 1923. She studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Budapest.

Work

Pan's sculptures are highly concerned with balance, symmetry, and geometry. She often created her works so that they were site-specific and worked with the surrounding environment. In 1946 Pan moved to

, where she met Constantin Brâncuşi and Fernand Léger. In 1952 she married

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, who was a studio assistant to Le Corbusier. Her early sculptures were highly influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier. In 1956, Pan created ''Le Teck'', which consisted of two moveable parts. The choreographer

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later created a ballet, also entitled ''Le Teck'', inspired directly by Pan's sculpture. Béjart's ballet was premiered on the roof of Le Corbusier's

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building in

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. Until 1960, all of Pan's sculptures consisted of this two-part construction method, which allowed one piece to be moved, thus altering the work. In 1990 she made Celle floating sculpture in Italy for the Gori collection - Fattoria di Celle.

Death

Pan died on 12 October 2008 in

Public collections

Pan's work can be seen in a number of public institutions and locations, including: * ''Floating Sculpture'' (1973),

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, Dallas (Texas), USA * ''Sculpture flottante, Otterlo'' (1960),

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, Otterlo, Netherlands * ''La Perspective'' (1992), Musée de la Ville de

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(Yvelines, Île-de-France), France * ''Floating Sculpture No. 3'' (1972),

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, Milwaukee (Wisconsin), USA"Floating Sculpture no. 3"
Lynden Sculpture Garden, Retrieved 23 November 2014. * ''Signe infini'' (1993), intersection of autoroutes A46 and A6 at Ambérieux (Rhône, Rhône-Alpes), France. *
Celle Floating Sculpture
' (1990)
Collezione GoriFattoria di Celle - Collezione Gori
Italy

Recognition

In 2001 Pan was awarded the prestigious

Praemium Imperiale Prince Takamatsu The Praemium Imperiale ( ja, 高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞, Takamatsu-no-miya Denka Kinen Sekai Bunka-shō, World Culture Prize in Memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu) is an international art prize inaugur ...

award for Sculpture from the Japan Art Society.

Selected works

File:Amphithéâtre, Kröller-Müller Museum.JPG, Amphitheatre File:KMM Pan Sculpture 02.JPG, Floating sculpture File:KMM Floating Sculpture.jpg, Floating sculpture

References

External links

Entry for Marta Pan
on the

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