An interesting cast bronze bas relief plaque by French Expressionist artist Henri-Georges Adam (1904-1967). This original sculpture is signed on the reverse, the edge is numbered and bears the foundry mark of the publisher, Monnaie de Paris. The piece was commissioned to honor Pierre Boulez, world renown orchestra conductor and composer. A beautifully detailed casting with a fine dark patina, it measures 5 1/2 inches in diameter and is 3/4 inch thick and quite heavy. It is in excellent condition.

Henri-Georges Adam (1904-1967) was a French sculptor, printmaker and tapestry designer. His father was a Parisian jeweler and at his studio Adam learned how to engrave. At the same time he studied drawing at the Ecole Germain-Pilon and attended evening classes at a school of drawing in Montparnasse. From 1928 to 1934 he started to produce prints and became associated with André Breton, Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard.
 
Establishing himself amongst the foremost sculptors of his time, Adam exhibited with Picasso at the Salon de la Libération, following which, Picasso offered him a studio where Adam worked from 1944 until 1950. He exhibited internationally with the elite of the Paris avant-garde, and was a founder of the acclaimed Salon de Mai in 1945. Adam was appointed professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he emphasised collective collaboration in works on a grand scale.

Adam had a number of one-man museum shows, including: the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1955; the Los Angeles County Museum, 1955; the Musée de La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1960; the Musée du Harvre, 1961; the Musée de Rouen, 1962; the Centre Cultural de Breda, 1962; the Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussells, 1962; the Cabinet des Estampes de Genève, 1963; and the Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1966. He also represented France at the Venice Biennale in 1950, 1956, and 1964.

His work is featured internationally in numerous museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.