Thursday, February 13, 2014

La Foule

La Foule, The Crowd by Raymond Mason, Tuileries Garden, Paris

“La Foule” (The Crowd) by Raymond Mason, 1963-7
Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden)
Quartier Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

“Once Mason was drawing his own sculpture, The Crowd, in the Tuileries Gardens. A stranger watched him for a long time in silence and eventually remarked: ‘You draw really well. But why are you drawing that shit?’” (Raymond Mason obituary, The Telegraph)

2 comments:

cieldequimper said...

Lol.

This looks like the métro on strike day.

Revrunner said...

Ha! :-)