Arman artist proof tribute to JS Bach

Edition on arches paper. Artist's proof numbered out of 10. 2 small tapes on the back of the lithography. Arman: Inspired by the dada movement, arman (born armand pierre fernandez) created unconventional sculptures from accumulated waste. In the mid-twentieth century, he began exhibiting random assortments of waste displayed in glass boxes, which he dubbed "trash cans". He also presented his "accumulations" - assemblages of several iterations of the same object, which ranged from toy cars and paint tubes. Arman often adopted destruction as a creative strategy: he burned and broke objects such as bronze statues and musical instruments, then mounted fragments on canvas, enclosed them in plexiglass. In the 1960s, he was associated with new realism, a european movement founded in response to pop art.