La Barre à Mine [Mining Bar], for the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, Paris
![La Barre à Mine [Mining Bar], for the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, Paris](http://wolfsonian.org/sites/default/files/object/TD1991.162.1.JPG "La Barre à Mine [Mining Bar], for the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, Paris")
- Title : La Barre à Mine [Mining Bar], for the Belgian Congo Pavilion at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, Paris
- Artist: Arthur Dupagne Artist
- Accession: TD1991.162.1
- Country: Belgium Brussels
- Date: circa 1937
- Dimensions: Inches 46 14 33, Centimeters 116.8 35.6 83.8
- Collection: Object
- Category: Paintings and Sculpture
- Collection Theme: World's Fairs and Expositions
- Subject: Ethnic , World's Fairs and Expositions , Black , Laborers/Workers , Sculpture/Sculpture Design
- Credit Line: The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection
- URL: TD1991.162.1.JPG
- Tags: World's Fairs and Expositions~Paintings and Sculpture
Description:
Black painted plaster sculpture of a muscular male figure clothed in a loin-cloth straining against a crowbar which is held vertically between both hands and leveraged between two rocks at the base.
