Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet previously located in front of the James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Weighing 10 short tons, the fiberglass structure was 29 feet tall and was unveiled on November 28, 1984.
This is one of Dubuffet's three monumental sculpture commissions in the United States. The sculpture is based on Dubuffet's 1960 painting series Hourloupe and has been taken to represent a standing animal, a tree, a portal and an architectural form. It is one of 19 commissioned artworks funded under the State of Illinois Art-in-Architecture Program throughout the building.
The sculpture was across the street from Chicago City Hall and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center. After Alphabet Inc. acquired the building in 2022, the state government announced plans to relocate the sculpture. It was dismantled in the spring of 2024 and was bound for a state warehouse. The sculpture is affectionately known to many Chicagoans as "Snoopy in a blender".
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