Online - Modern and Contemporary Art Jean Tinguely O. T. (Painting machine picture, with Méta-Matic no. 12). 1959. fibre pencil on Vélin cardboard. 20.4 x 15.3 cm. Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed in fibre-tip pen and biros verso and inscribed as a postcard by another hand in coloured pencil, with postmark and stamp affixed. - Slightly yellowed. Bumped and creased in the corners and margins, traces of handling in places. Good overall. From the end of the 1950s, Tinguely created his famous Méta Matics, so-called painting machine pictures. Involving the viewer, who sets the machines in motion, abstract drawings are created with a clattering noise. Artist, artwork and viewer are questioned in their roles and overlap. Felt-tip pen on wove card-board. Signed and dated with pencil. Verso titled with felt-tip pen and ball-point pen. . - Slightly browned. In the corners and margins bumped and creased, occasionally with traces of handling. All in all good. 400