Armand FERNANDEZ known as ARMAN (1928-2005) Tubes... Lot 233

Armand FERNANDEZ known as ARMAN (1928-2005) Tubes of color, circa 1997 Silkscreen on Plexiglas plate Signed "Arman" lower left Height: 50.7 cm (Significant crack on one of the plates) Condition report available on request: contact@neo-encheres.com NOTICE Son of an antiques dealer and cellist, Arman began his studies at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Nice, then at the École du Louvre just after the Second World War, when he joined the Resistance as a teenager. It was during this period that he met Yves Klein and Pierre Restany, with whom he signed the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto. Initially influenced by the lyrical abstraction of the Paris School, he turned away from it to devote himself to his first prints on canvas. This was followed by famous sculptural series such as Colères, Poubelles, Accumulations, Coupes and Combustions. The work presented here takes up one of his Coulures series, in which Arman imprisoned open tubes of paint in resin, diffusing the color into the colorless block.