"ARMAN"; ARMAND PIERRE (Nice, 1928 - New York... Lot 23

"ARMAN"; ARMAND PIERRE (Nice, 1928 - New York 2005). From the series "Olympic Suite". Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 114/250. Hand signed and dated. Size: 63 x 90 cm. Armand Pierre's father, better known as Arman, was an antique dealer and amateur painter, as well as a musician, playing the cello. He settled in Nice, where Arman was born and studied at the city's School of Decorative Arts. There he met the painter Yves Klein, a representative of abstraction and performance art. He later trained at the Ecole du Louvre, where he remained in contact with artistic modernity. His great contribution to painting and graphic work is what is defined as "Accumulations", groupings of objects of the same type, displaced from their natural location and presented as a group, which constitute a critique of consumer society, as in this lithograph of the Olympic Suite. The Olympic Suite consists of 50 lithographs and silkscreen prints chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism.