Arman Fernandez/Sculpture "Variation" representing... Lot 51

Arman Fernandez/Sculpture "Variation" representing a Portuguese guitar cut out standing on a black painted steel stepped base. Polished bronze, circa 2002. Signed and n°EA/ 20 ex. Rare. TBE with minor wear and stains. H 85 X 35 X 28 cm This well-known work illustrates wonderfully the unique style of the master of cutting, through this guitar cut and off-center ... He practices the destruction to create something new. Armand Fernandez alias Arman (1928-2005) is a Franco-American artist, painter, sculptor and visual artist, known for his "accumulations" as well as more than 500 exhibitions that have been dedicated to him. He is co-founder of the movement "The New Realists" with Yves Klein around 1960. He was one of the first to use directly, as pictorial matter, manufactured objects, which represented for him the multiple and infinite extensions of the hand of the man who undergo a continuous cycle of production, consumption, destruction.