Tinguely, Jean | Meta – Matic N9, 1960 — available on Composition Gallery

Unique original blue color drawing ( by Meta-Matic machinery ) in blue, broad felt pen. Hand signed in pencil recto, printed COA of Museum Haus Lange Krefeld verso. Made and sold at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 07/1960.

This remarkable drawing is a genuine original produced by one of Jean Tinguely’s celebrated Méta-Matic machines at Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld in July 1960. Executed in sweeping strokes of blue felt pen, the composition reveals the unpredictable gestural energy of the apparatus — bold, rhythmic marks that oscillate between mechanical precision and expressive freedom. Hand-signed by Tinguely and accompanied by the museum’s printed certificate of authenticity, this unique work stands as a historic document from the birth of kinetic and machine-made art, embodying the artist’s radical questioning of authorship and creative process.

Jean Tinguely (Switzerland, 1925–1991) was a Swiss sculptor renowned for his kinetic art, creating mechanical sculptures that often satirized automation and the overproduction of material goods. His notable works include 'Homage to New York' (1960), a self-destructing sculpture exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jean Tinguely

Meta – Matic N9, 1960

Name: Meta – Matic N9, 1960
SKU: 17349
Price: 500.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Drawing / Watercolor

Drawing / WatercolorDrawing and watercolor are two traditional art techniques which stand alone as media, but are often used in conjunction with each other. Drawing can create the basic outlines for watercolor painting. Drawing over dried watercolor or using watercolor pencils are combined media techniques.

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Pen and ink

Pen and inkPen and ink is a traditional drawing technique that involves using a dip pen with India ink on paper. The fine tip of the dip pen is ideal for creating varied lines and detailed shading. Some artists prefer using a fountain pen with an ink reservoir for greater convenience.

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To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

- Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor and painter who was most well known for his creations of kinetic art, known technically as meta-mechanics, in the grand Dada tradition. Jean Tinguely’s basic purpose for his art is to lampoon the unconscious over-creation of material items in modern industry. Jean Tinguely’s best known work was Homage to New York, which he designed to destroy itself. However, it did not completely self-destruct in its exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A later work,Study for an End of the World No. 2, was successful in its self-destruction when shown for an audience in the desert near Las Vegas. Some of his more well known public works include Chaos I, in Columbus Indiana; the Tinguely Fountain in Basel; the Jo Siffert Fountain in Fribourg, Switzerland; La Cascade, a sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina; and a number of other metamatic generative sculptures made in the 1950s. (Artist website)

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