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Gudmar Olovson moved to Paris in 1959. In 1971 the city allocated him a large studio at 64 rue Saint Charles in the 15th arrondissement, where he lived and worked until his death in 2017. In the background stands a %u201cpantographe de Collas,%u201d operated by Georges Bigel (1918-2008)%u2014an %u201cagrandisseur%u201d who worked alongside Olovson in the studio for over thirty years, skillfully enlarging his sculptures to monumental scale. This very machine once resided in Auguste Rodin%u2019s Paris studio.
