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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Maillol Sculpture

Artistide Maillol's heroic sculpture, "L'Action Enchainee," was added to the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in February 1979. The major work of bronze, commissioned as a monument to Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881), a French political leader, was sculpted in 1905-6 and stands seven feet high. It is the final cast made of a total of eight, and in accordance with the decision of the Maillol estate, no further casts will be made. Only two of the sculptures are in the United States, one in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena and the other now at the Hirshhorn Museum. Its acquisition adds a major work of 20th Century sculpture to the Museum's collection and greatly strengthens the representation of European sculpture of the period.

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