Arman

"ARMAN" Armand Pierre (Nice, 1928 - New York 2005).
Untitled, from the series "Olympic Suite".
Lithograph on 270 grams Vélin d'Arches paper, copy P.A., 35/50.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 90 x 63 cm.

Armand Pierre's father, better known as Arman, was an antique dealer and amateur painter, as well as a musician, he played 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.

The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism.