Torn off poster remains on sheet metal. Lower right signed and dated. Inscribed "N° 7" on the reverse. 49 x 83 cm.
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- Conceptual work on paper by the pioneer of 20th century art. - In Paris in the late 1940s, Raymond Hains and Jacques de la Villeglé began to tear posters off the walls in nightly actions and declared them art: A completely new understanding of art was born. - In 1960, a year before this work was created, Hains signed the first manifesto of "Nouveau Réalisme" together with artists such as Arman, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. - He Participation in the documenta in Kassel in 1968 and 1997 and posthumously in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2017.