Claude Mercier. Catalogue raisonné. Photographie and even Hellenistic traditions

and even Hellenistic traditions

and penalized

Onyx Collection

French Provinces collection

on Rives rag vellum

Claude Mercier. Catalogue raisonné. Photographie and even Hellenistic traditionsA catalogue raisonn is the synthesis of a life, not just the most exhaustive inventory possible of a work, but the sum of all the research, all the emotions, all the "accidents", errors as well as moments of grace, it is the story of encounters, ruptures, and above all that of an immense work. Claude likes to talk about two encounters that were obviously decisive for the young sculptor he was in post war Paris, the one with Henry Moore in the 1950s