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Publisher: Académie des Beaux-Arts
Place Published: Paris
Year: 1973
Date & Collation: 16pp.Text in French.
Description: Speeches by Pierre Eugène CLAIRIN and Henry MOORE on the occasion of Moore's election as member of the Académie.
3-11 M. Clairin pays tribute to Moore's standing in the world of art, and outlines Moore's life with quotations from the artist's writing.
13-16 In his speech Moore recalls his first visit to France as a soldier, his first visit to Paris in 1922, and subsequent trips to France as a young man to study the medieval sculpture of the country.