Marseille, 1921 – Paris, 1998
French experimental artist, printmaker and sculptor, best recognized for his use of scrap materials and as one of the founder of NOUVEAU RÉALISME.
Trained at the ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Marseilles and ÉCOLE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Paris, César has continued to create very varied art, through his prolific career as an artist.
His best recognized works are: COMPRESSIONS (which are essentially scrapped cars crushed into dense packages), for example THE YELLOW BUICK, MOMA, New York; and EXPANSIONS (artworks created with plastics, such as the THUMB, TATE GALLERY, London).
Museums and Collections:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco, U.S.
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil.
National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia
Palazzo Forti Verona, Italy.
Tate Gallery London, U.K.
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Iran.