Bury, Pol, 1922-2005

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Pol Bury was born in La Louvière, Belgium, on April 26, 1922. He began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco. https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/pol-bury
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creatorOf Bury, Pol, 1922-. [Pol Bury : International Art & Artists File]. Libraries Australia
creatorOf Bury, Pol, 1922-2005. Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1967. University of Pennsylvania Library
creatorOf Bury, Pol, 1922-2005. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
creatorOf Bury, Pol. Bury, Pol : [photography bio file]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Bury, Pol, 1922- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
Harry Shunk and Shunk-Kender photographs Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. Espace, mouvement et son dans la sculpture de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle / Alexander Calder, Nicolas Schöffer, Pol Bury... [et al.], participants. Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF
creatorOf Bury, Pol. [Pol Bury] : artist file John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library
creatorOf Bury, Pol, 1922-2005. 81 boules sur 9 plans en profondeur [Multimédia multisupport]. Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF
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Abstract Photographs
Kinetic artists
Kinetic sculpture
Painting, Abstract
Surrealism
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Painters (artists)
Photographers
Sculptors
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Birth 1922-04-26

Death 2005-09-28

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Belgians

French

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