Parent Category: Statues Hauts-de-Seine

Issy-les-Moulineaux - Bronze statue of a man holding a large column and a small boy looking on.

A naked Hercules is balancing a large column with little branches coming out at the higher parts of the column. The tall column is square at the bottom and becomes round towards the top.

At the lower part of it you can see people and writing.The little boy at his feet holds up a tortoise.

Yvan Theimer creates bronze sculptures with a lot of symbolism and a lot of detail.

Hercules and the plant column was created by Yvan Theimer and his assistant Franco Bertoni in 1992.