Action in Chains

Action in Chains is a 1905 bronze sculpture by Aristide Maillol. The original called Monument to Blanqui was commissioned by Louis Auguste Blanqui, and resides at the Puget-Théniers, for which it was originally commissioned.

Secondary casts and related artworks

• Bronze casts (2.15m height) at :

• Musée d'Orsay, displayed since 1964 mat Tuileries Garden as part of a series of works by Maillol on open-air display
• Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art (1906)
• Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Hakone Open-Air Museum
• Norton Simon Museum
• Private collection (Sale by Dina Vierny, Christie's, 2005);
• Billy Rose Collection, Israel Museum

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  copy at Hakone Open-Air Museum
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  copy at Billy Rose Collection, Israel Museum
• 
  copy from private collection, at an art show at Perpignan

• Bronze versions without arms (2.15m height):

• Collection Dina Vierny, Paris;
• Private collection at city of Perpignan, displayed at Banyuls-sur-Mer.

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  copy from Banyuls-sur-Mer

• Bronze torso:

• Kunstmuseum Basel
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Tate Gallery
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• City of Perpignan;
• Collection Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur;
• Private collection.

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  copy at Art Institute of Chicago

• Other:

• Bronze study without arms (33 cm height) at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Charcoal Drawing at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Plaster cast (2.15 m height) at Musée Maillol

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  copy at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  drawing at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Plaster cast at Musée Maillol