Installation of "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") on a schoolyard in Vallauris. Destined 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”. Vallauris, 29 March 1958.

Composed of forty wooden panels, the monumental mural "The Fall of Icarus" is installed in a schoolyard in Vallauris on 29 March 1958. The modernist work depicts abstract and stylized figures, with a dynamic central form splaying its limbs as it falls. Originally titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil," the composition was renamed by George Salles that year. It was destined for the conference hall of the UNESCO building in Paris.

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"La grande peinture de l'UNESCO (La chute d'Icare)", 1958. Wofsy.58:067b

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