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Cortège
1982 · Forged steel, in five parts
Overall approximately 70" x 7' 6 1/2" x 6' 5 1/4" (177.9 x 229.9 x 196.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Alain Kirili
French, 1946
WA-00027907
Paris, France
SculptureFigurationAbstract Art
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Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Alain Kirili was a French sculptor whose abstract forms in stone and bronze engaged with modernist reduction and spatial presence. Working across carved and cast materials, his work distilled figuration into elemental geometries that maintained a sense of bodily weight and monumentality. Active from the 1970s onward, Kirili's practice emerged within the postwar European tradition of abstract sculpture while maintaining a distinct focus on the material integrity of each piece.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
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