Jean Tinguely - Composition - Gouache , felt tip and collage on paper

Jean Tinguely : (1925-1991) was a swiss sculptor, painter and draughtsman: one of the most innovative sculptors of the 20th century. Among his most original inventions, his most famous are the "Méta Matics", or animated sculptures, which he started assembling in 1954 under the name of "Méta-mecaniques". Distorting salvage objects and their mechanism from their original sense and purpose, he breathed them into a new life to make them autonomous sculptures moving thanks to electricity. Steeped in Marcel Duchamp's works (Ready-made or usual objects promoted as works of art), he placed himself in a dadaist spirit which shows itself thanks to provocation and derision. In 1959, his first public triumph tool place at the Paris Biennale, inaugurated by André Malraux, at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, with machines producing series of paintings. With his second wife, Niki de Saint Phalle, he created gigantic sculptures. His works can be seen in the Espace Jean-Tinguely–Niki-de-Saint-Phalle in Freibourg, at the Musée Tinguely in Basel, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Marseille as well as at the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris.

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Musée Tinguely (Switzerland)
Château d'Oiron (France)
Ludwig Museum (Budapest) (Hungary)
MacVal (France)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Peyrassol Sculpture Park (France)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Musée d'art Moderne et contemporain de Nice (MAMAC) (France)
Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
The Menil Collection (The USA)
The Ludwig Collection (Germany)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland)
MAMCO (Switzerland)
Queensland art Gallery (Australia)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Sammlung FER Collection (Germany)
FRAC Bretagne (France)
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)
Lehmbruck Museum (Germany)
Artothèque du Limousin + FACLIM (France)
UBS Art Collection (Switzerland)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (France)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
Kunstmuseen Krefeld (Germany)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) (Spain)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
MUSMA Museo della Scultura Contemporanea Matera (Italy)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
MUMOK - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Austria)
Israel Museum (Israel)
Collection des arts visuels city of Bienne (Switzerland)
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) (The USA)
nufnuf-art fondation (Switzerland)
Werner et Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Musée d'Art Contemporain Marseille (France)
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Sammlung HypoVereinsBank (Germany)
National Museum of Contemporary art Seoul (South Korea)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
The Hubert Looser Collection (Switzerland)
National Gallery of Australia (NGA) (Australia)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
University Art Museum | California State University (The USA)
mglc (Slovenia)
Kunstmuseum Solothurn (Switzerland)
Collection Michel Fedoroff (Monaco)
Artothèque, Millau (France)
Ulmer Museum (Germany)
Fondation Gandur pour l'art (Switzerland)
Bündner Kunstmuseum (Switzerland)
Ute & Rodolf Scharpff Zammlung (Germany)