from left Georges Salles, President of the ICOM (left) and Henri Laugier, Member of the Executive committee of the UNESCO. Unvealing of the mural "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") for the conference hall of UNESCO building in Paris. Vallauris, 29 March 1958. from left Georges Salles, President of the ICOM (left) and Henri Laugier, Member of the Executive committee of the UNESCO. Unveiling of mural "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") for the conference hall of UNESCO building in Paris. The mural is made up of forty wooden panels. Initially titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil", the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare"). Vallauris, 29 March 1958.

Georges Salles, President of the ICOM, and Henri Laugier of UNESCO’s Executive Committee converse at the unveiling of the mural "The Fall of Icarus" in Vallauris, 29 March 1958. Salles (left), with a prominent shock of white hair, listens attentively as Laugier speaks. Composed of forty wooden panels, the large-scale abstract work was created for the UNESCO building in Paris. Salles himself renamed the composition from its original title, "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil."

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"La grande peinture de l'UNESCO (La chute d'Icare)", 1958. Warncke:551

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