Arman

Exhibited by Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

Material Sliced flea-market metal sculpture

Dimensions 34 × 12 × 7.5 cm

Price Price Upon Inquiry

Status Not Vetted

About the Work

Tranche de vie de Jeanne d’Arc is a masterwork of Arman’s use of ordinary objects as the base material for his major artistic gestures: accumulating, destroying, burning, fragmenting… This work is one of the earliest and most important examples of his slicing gesture. The small bronze souvenir showing the Maid of Orleans is carefully, delicately cut into a ‘slice of life’ – a comment on and a rejection of the bourgeois nature of such decorative elements, its political and historical meanings, and on the very nature of its materiality.

Provenance

Provenance

Madame Marcel Duchamp
Galerie GP & N Vallois

Literature

Exhibitions

1991, Arman, A Retrospective, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, US; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
2010, Arman, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, FR; Musée Tinguely, Basel, CH
2025, Beautés désordonnées, curator : Jean-Hubert Martin, Fine Arts Biennale, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
2025, Arman, tout ce qui reste, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, FR

Bibliography

1973, Henry Martin, Arman, ed. Harry N. Abrams, p. 96, no. 80
1984, Jan van der Marck, Arman, Abbeville Press, New York, p. 49, no. 36
1987, Arman, Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Ed. de la Différence, p. 131
1991, Denyse Durand-Ruel, Arman, Catalogue raisonné II, 1960-1962, p. 137 (full-page color reproduction), pp. 142-143, no. 266
1991, Arman, A Retrospective, Exh. Cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
1991, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, p. 68, no. 22
1993, Pierre Cabanne, Arman, in ‘Classiques du XXIe siècle’, vol. 8, pp. 29, 71
1997, Arman, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, p. 14
1998, Arman, Exh. Cat., Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, p. 27, no. 10
2001, Arman, Exh. Cat., Fundaciòn ‘La Caixa’, Barcelone, p. 30, no. 10
2010, Arman, Exh. Cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, p. 174
2011, Arman, Exh. Cat., Musée Tinguely, Basel, p. 174
2020, Germano Celant, Arman 1954 - 1974, Ed. SilvanaEditoriale, p. 22, no. 24
2025, Arman, tout ce qui reste, Exh. Cat., Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, pp. 81, 183
2025, Beautés désordonnées, Exh. Cat., Fine Arts Biennale, Grand Palais, Paris, pp. 34, 221