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Les Scailleteux

The Slate Workers

Georges-Armand Favaudon
1988

Description

Mural artwork depicting eight slate workers and represents the different stages of the work with slate. It is a bas relief affixed to a retaining wall. The workers are made of reinforced concrete and the background is made of slate and Givet limestone.

Fumay - Les Scailleteux

NB. On the both signs therefore and most website this mural artwork is called a "fresco" ("fresque" in French). A fresco is however a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster, which is here not the case .

Inscription(s)

LES SCAILLETEUX
FRESQUE RENDANT HOMMAGE
aux ARDOISIERS de
FUMAY
Réalisation: G.A. FAVAUDON
DON: du BUREAU de TOURISME

FRESQUE Andre JORIS
PRESIDENT FONDATEUR
DU
BUREAU DE TOURISME
DE
FUMAY

Artist

Georges-Armand Favaudon (Chagny, Saône-et-Loire 1921 - Aubrives, Ardennes 2008), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, IA08000113.

Location (N 49°59'29" - E 4°42'6") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frca030; Photograph: 25 May 2019
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