Michel Deverne is a French sculptor whose work has always dealt with the relationship between art and architecture in the city. During the post-war reconstruction of France, a proportion of the budget for new government buildings was devoted by law to commission art. His sculptures appear in many of France's prominent government buildings as a result. Perhaps this profligacy is impossible here and now, or perhaps as we develop a higher aesthetic demand in other areas of our life we will come to demand more from our environment.
This sketch of him, in Indian ink with watercolour tint, is from a picture of him in Wallpaper magazine, Jan 2011
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