Max BillDoublement. Double. 1969.

Chrome-plated brass sculpture multiple. 1969. With the incised signature: 'Max Bill' and title: 'Doublement. Editions DR 1969'. Numbered from 200.

Created by Bill for Editions Denise René, Paris 1969.

Note: Max Bill founded the 'Concrete Art - Art Concrète' movement in the 1950's in Paris and Switzerland. He was an artist of multiple talents - painter, sculptor, designer - and also very influential through his teaching. He studied at the Bauhaus, alongside Albers under Walter Gropius from 1927 to 1929. There he absorbed Gropius' key concept of 'function' but extended it beyond the field of architecture (to which Gropius had applied it) into the visual arts, especially painting, graphic art and sculpture. During the war years he returned to his native Switzerland to teach product design based on the same 'functional' concept.

In the first years after the War, focusing on painting, graphics and sculpture he became one of the central figures in the movement towards the linking of geometric form with colour and a key influence in the so-called 'Op-Art' circle of artists based on Denise René's gallery in Paris.

'Doublement' is an extremely fine example of his focus on function, construction and spatial form. The edition was issued by Denise René.

Extremely fine example with the chrome surfaces excellent. Overall format: 343 x 318 x 260mm.