Martial Raysse copper work of art, framed between two pieces of glass
Copper piece: 5.5" x 5.5"
Frame:14" x 17.5"

Provenance
From the Estate of Roger Prigent, famous for his work as a fashion photographer next to Richard Avendon and famous later in his life for owning and running the antiques business Malamaison.

Raysse has a similar work in the Georges Pompidou Center, the Paris museum of modern art.Dated 1969.The title of that work is Une Forme en Liberte.

Martial Raysse
(Source: Wiki) Martial Raysse is a French artist and actor born in Golfe-Juan on 12 February 1936. He lives in Issigeac, France. He holds the record for the most expensive work sold by a living French artist.

Raysse was born in a ceramicist family in Vallauris and began to paint and write poetry at age 12. After studying and practising athleticism at a high level, he began to accumulate rubbish odds and ends that he preserved under plexiglas. In 1958, he exhibited some of his paintings with Jean Cocteau at Galerie Longchamp.

Fascinated by the beauty of plastic, he plundered low-costs shops with plastic items and developed what became his "vision hygiene" concept; a vision that showcases consumer society. This work received attention and critical praise in 1961, and at a commercial gallery in Milan, his exhibition sold out 15 minutes before the opening. Raysse then traveled to the United States to get involved with the pop art scene in New York City.

In October 1960, Raysse, together with Arman, Yves Klein, François Dufrêee, Raymond Hains, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Jacques Villeglé and the art critic and philosopher Pierre Restany founded the group Nouveaux Realistes. The group was later joined by César, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle and Christo. This group of artists defined themselves as bearing in common a "new perspective approaches of reality". Their work was an attempt at reassessing the concept of art and the artist in the context of a 20th-century consumer society by reasserting the humanistic ideals in the face of industrial expansion.

In 2011 Raysses painting, Last Year in Capri (Exotic Title), sold for $6.58 million at Christie's auction, the most expensive price paid for a work by a living French artist. The sale coincided with a resurgence in interest among collectors for Raysse's work. Attention to Raysse had waned after he moved into classicist painting in the 1960s while abstraction was peaking.[1] The 1993 purchase of his work and commissions by billionaire François Pinault drew more attention to Raysse.

Good condition overall