Georges Salles, President of the ICOM (left) and Edouard Pignon. Unveiling of mural "The Fall of Icarus" 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.

Georges Salles (left), President of the ICOM, in conversation with the painter Edouard Pignon in Vallauris on 29 March 1958. Salles, seen in profile with distinctive grey hair and glasses, gestures as he speaks. Pignon listens intently, a cigarette between his fingers. The occasion was the unveiling of the forty-panel mural for the UNESCO building in Paris, which Salles renamed "The Fall of Icarus" from its original title, "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil".

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