Ohne Titel. 1961.
Torn off poster remains on sheet metal.
Lower right signed and dated. Inscribed "N° 7" on the reverse. 49 x 83 cm (19.2 x 32.6 in).
[AR].
• 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.

PROVENANCE: Galerie J, Paris (with the stamp on the reverse).
Galerie Reckermann, Cologne (with the stamp on the reverse).
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

In good condition. With a small hole in the sheet metal from an old mounting, however, part of the work's nature. Not unframed for cataloging.