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Monument with Standing Beast
Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center to the southeast. It is a white fiberglass work of art. The piece is a 10-ton or work. It was unveiled on November 28, 1984.
This is one of Dubuffet's three monumental sculpture commissions in
2019: "Barbarian in Europe", MUCEM, Marseille, France, 24 April-2 September 2019
Notable works.
- "La Chiffonnière"
- "Monument with Standing Beast" (1984)
- "Monument au Fantôme"
Selected bibliography.
Selected bibliography Catalogue Raisonné.
- "Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet," Fascicule I-XXXVIII, Pauvert: Paris, 1965–1991
- Webel, Sophie, "L’Œuvre gravé et les livres illustrés par Jean Dubuffet. Catalogue raisonné." Lebon: Paris