Attributed to Pierre SABATIER (1925–2003)

Pierre SABATIER (1925–2003) Large interior wall installation consisting of ten panels of hammered and perforated copper. Set of five panels complemented by a five-part writing desk featuring a pair of doors at the bottom and a writing shelf in the center. Dimensions of the set: Height: 224 to 246 cm Length: 75; 100; 100; 100; 97; for a total of 492 cm (approx.) Dimensions of the writing desk: Height: 227 cm Width: 75 cm Provenance: Apartment of a collector, 8th arrondissement, Paris. Pierre Sabatier is one of the leading French sculptors of monumental art from the “Trente Glorieuses” era. Born in Moulins in 1925, he trained after the war at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs and then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Very early on, he oriented his artistic practice toward the dialogue between art and architecture, notably through commissions under the “1% Artistic” program. After working with ceramics and mosaics, Sabatier gradually shifted his focus, beginning in the late 1950s, toward metal, which became his medium of choice. He explored all its possibilities—steel, copper, brass, tin, and aluminum—by hammering, chiseling, cutting, welding, burning, or oxidizing it to create surfaces with effects that were at once architectural, organic, and luminous. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, he collaborated with numerous architects and created monumental works integrated into public buildings, corporate headquarters, universities, and religious sites. A member of the “Le Mur vivant” movement beginning in 1966, he championed a conception of art closely linked to architecture. His body of work, comprising several hundred pieces, is notably represented in the collections of the Centre Pompidou.