The Illuminated Crowd, (1985, sculpture), Montreal, Quebec. September 2016

The Illuminated Crowd sculpted by Raymond Mason. The Louis Dreyfus Property Group contacted Mason in 1980 with the idea of presenting a sculpture by him on the future plaza of 1981, avenue McGill College. He was actively working on The Illuminated Crowd at the time and it was a revised version of the theme which he chose to fit the site. He has always felt that given the strict geometrical forms of North American architecture, the sculpture of the human form is needed. The square paned facades of the building are ideally suited to capture and emphasize the undulation of Mason’s present crowd of 65 figures. Thus, the sculpture is in light ochre in color, singing before the blue of the building.