Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire by Pablo Picasso
“La tête de Dora Maar” (The head Dora Maar)
Square Laurent Prache
Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th arrondissement
Paris, July 2002
“Picasso's monument to his poet friend Guillaume Apollinaire never fully materialized as planned, but it led to groundbreaking wire sculptures called ‘Figures’, created with Julio González as ‘drawings in space’ in 1928, exploring ‘nothingness’. Though Picasso's radical designs for the tomb were rejected, these experimental iron works, echoing Apollinaire's literary themes, inspired a new era of metal sculpture, with a large-scale version eventually placed in Paris's Square Saint-Germain-des-Prés as a tribute.” (Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, AI Overview)
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