Musée Zadkine
Paris
Exhibition
Alicia Penalba. Sculpture Between Earth and Sky
Born in Argentina in 1913 and gone in 1982, Alicia Penalba spent most of her career in France, where she established herself as a sculptor of international renown. The Musée Zadkine devotes to her the first exhibition organized by a French museum since her death, thus making amends for a relative oversight. The choice...
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18 November 2026 to 25 April 2027
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Born in Argentina in 1913 and gone in 1982, Alicia Penalba spent most of her career in France, where she established herself as a sculptor of international renown. The Musée Zadkine devotes to her the first exhibition organized by a French museum since her death, thus making amends for a relative oversight. The choice...
The Musée Zadkine devotes to Alicia Penalba (1913-1982) her first French retrospective since her death: "totemic" sculptures, vertical and organic, between earth and sky.
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To rediscover a great 20th-century sculptor unjustly overshadowed. The Musée Zadkine, where Penalba once studied, is the idéal setting for this return. Her vertical, organic forms, nourished by nature, strike with their surge.
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Born in Argentina in 1913 and gone in 1982, Alicia Penalba spent most of her career in France, where she established herself as a sculptor of international renown. The Musée Zadkine devotes to her the first exhibition organized by a French museum since her death, thus making amends for a relative oversight. The choice.
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To rediscover a great 20th-century sculptor unjustly overshadowed. The Musée Zadkine, where Penalba once studied, is the idéal setting for this return. Her vertical, organic forms, nourished by nature, strike with their surge.
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On Expo Paris, Alicia Penalba. Sculpture Between Earth and Sky is most useful when it is read not only as a single event but as part of a broader route through Musée Zadkine, where exhibitions, artists and editorial themes can be compared quickly in English. This page becomes easier to place when it is connected to the strongest editorial routes already available on the site.
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For an English reader, the point of this page is also practical: it clarifies the venue, dates and booking context, then opens clear paths toward related exhibitions, artists and subjects so that the visit does not remain isolated. 3 related exhibition pages are already close enough to help compare tone, period or venue.
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