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Arman (b. 1928)
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Arman (b. 1928)

Accumulation Renault No. 123

Details
Arman (b. 1928)
Accumulation Renault No. 123
accumulation of Renault tailights in Plexiglas
79 x 63½in. (200.7 x 161.2cm.)
Executed in 1968
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Galleria Masnata Valsecchi, Milan. Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.
Literature
H. Martin, Arman, New York & Paris 1970, no. 146, p. 161 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Arman, accumulations Renault, March-April 1969, no. 13 (illustrated n.p.). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Berlin, Kunsthalle; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Ludwigshafen, Städtische Kunstsammlungen; Zurich, Kunsthaus and Helsinki, Amos Anderson Taidemuseo.
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Lot Essay

This work is registered at the Archives Denyse Durand-Ruel under no.
1625 and will be included in the forthocming Arman catalogue
raisonné being prepared by Denyse Durand-Ruel, Paris.

'At a certain point, Yves Klein and I had divided the world between the two of us like Empire Barons. He had told me : 'I will take the organic side of things and you can take the manufactured one'. (Arman in Exh. cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Arman: 33 accumulations, 1969, n.p.).

The present work is part of a series Arman executed between 1967 and 1969 in collaboration with the Régie Renault. He realised in total 70 works from material and various car elements given to him by the famous car producer.

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