Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station, Paris, France

Hector Guimard · c. 1900

This is Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station, Paris, France — an architectural work by Hector Guimard, around nineteen hundred. It's painted cast iron, glazed lava, and glass, about 4.2 by 5.4 meters. It is one of the largest things in this museum — about 82 times the area of a typical work here. Guimard was part of the Art Nouveau movement.

Medium Painted cast iron, glazed lava, and glass · Dimensions 13' 11" x 17' 10" x 32" (424.2 x 543.6 x 81.3 cm) Each vertical stanchion: 1040 lbs. Horizontal component: 460 lbs. Glazed lava sign: 100 lbs. · Credit Gift of Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens

Hanging beside it in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: The River, The Back (I)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Rue de la Santé, Bourges, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled from the series Dear Painter, Paint for Me [Lieber Maler, male mir], Moulin Rouge

More by Hector Guimard here: Side Table