Sculpture White Bear By Pompon At The Orsay Museum In Paris, France Editorial Image

Sculpture white bear by Pompon at the Orsay Museum in Paris, France. The museum is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay a railway station built between 1898 and 1900. For many years, Pompon was one of the most sought-after assistants in Paris, hewing blocks of marble for Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. But after 1905, in reaction to Rodin's expressionism, Pompon abandoned the human figure and turned to the animals that he observed at the Jardin des Plantes. Polar Bear is the finest achievement in this vein when it was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1922, it brought the artist tardy recognition, at the age of sixty-seven.