Arman

Untitled with paint brushes

1988

Signed and dated 'Al Held 61' (lower right) Price: $75,000 (+5% import VAT) Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery, New York (stock no.1179359 HELD-0075) Private collection, New York Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2012) Exhibited: New York, Queens Museum; Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum; Maine, Portland Museum of Art; Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection...

oil on canvas

signed ‘A. Istrati’ (upper left); signed, dated and titled ‘contrepoint bleu vert, Istrati A., 1989’ (on the verso)

mixed media on wood, signed and dated ‘TUMARKIN 1960’ (on the verso)

Parker Ito Brush Cleaner , 2010 Oil on digital print on canvas 101.3 x 76.4 cm Multimedia and digital artist Parker Ito is known for his manipulations of found imagery and web-based...

2004 Acrylic and tubes of paint on superimposed Plexiglas plates. Edition of 99 copies + 40 EA + 30 copies I/XXX à XXX/XXX. Signed and numbered x/99 lower right. Referenced in the A.R.M.A.N. Foundation No. 5944 Referenced in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under No. 10.508. Arman is a Franco-American artist best known for his unique style of found object sculpture known as accumulations. Inspired by the philosophy and aesthetics of Dadaism, he brings together forks, instruments and teapots in display cases. A member of Nouveau Réalisme alongside Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, among others, he responds to the emergence of Pop art through his own critique of consumption, waste and mass production, particularly in his series "Poubelles" in the early 1960s. For his famous and monumental sculpture "Long-Term Parking" (1982), the artist piles up 60 cars...

Unique artwork This work is recorded in the Arman Studio Archives New York under number: APA# 1001.87.013. The painting was executed by Arman at a happening at Malmö Konserthus for t...

Edition 20/99 Arman (born Armand Pierre Fernandez) was an early proponent of accumulation and scatter art. In 1959, he began displaying collections of objects in Plexiglas cases and creating installations of strewn garbage, which he called “Poubelles,” or “trash bins.” He also welded identical objects together to create larger sculptural pieces. In 1961, along with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé, art critic Pierre Restany, and others, Arman founded Nouveau Réalisme, a group interested in new approaches to the concept of “reality.” Spending time in New York in the 1960s, Arman adopted destruction as a strategy for creating something new—slicing, burning, and smashing objects such as bronze statues and musical instruments to mount on canvas. Andy Warhol owned two of Arman’s Poubelles, and Arman appears in the Warhol’s 1964...