Arman

"ARMAN", ARMAND PIERRE FERNANDEZ (Nice, 1928 - New York 2005).
Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial".
Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy 69/250.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.
The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. Edited to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism, the chosen artists are defined in diverse pictorial movements and trends.
Armand Pierre's father, better known as Arman, was an 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, representative of abstraction and performance. He would later be trained at the Louvre School, where he would remain 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 dislocated from their natural location and presented as a group that constitute a critique of consumer society, as in this lithograph of the Olympic Suite.