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.

"The Fall of Icarus," a massive abstract mural composed of forty wooden panels, is installed in a Vallauris schoolyard on 29 March 1958. Destined for the UNESCO building in Paris, the composition depicts a falling, skeletal figure and an upright, geometric one. A small group of workmen, dwarfed by the artwork’s immense scale and the surrounding scaffolding, gazes upward. Originally titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil," the mural was renamed by George Salles in 1958.

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

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