Plate from La Vittoria (Victory)
Jean Tinguely
Swiss, 1925–1991
1970–72, published 1972
An offset lithograph with collage and pen-and-pencil additions in which Jean Tinguely treats the page as a working diagram—mixing sketches, notes, arrows, and a small paper scrap to map out the form and motion of a proposed kinetic machine.
It reads like an engineer’s notebook run through an artist’s imagination: rapid penciled contours, colored felt‑tip ‘wires’ and numbered callouts sprawl across a white field punctuated by a tiny collaged orange cone and looping handwritten directions.
The sheet makes visible Tinguely’s method of turning drawing into machine, helping to expand postwar sculpture into performance, engineered chance, and humorous critique of industrial modernity.
Medium
Offset lithograph with collage, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pencil additions from an illustrated book with eleven offset lithographs (some with rubber stamp, collage, pochoir, watercolor, gouache, crayon, felt-tip pen, ballpoint pen, and pencil additions), two lithographs, two etchings (one with aquatint), one screenprint, and fourteen offset lithograph reproductions
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 17 1/16 × 12 1/4" (43.3 × 31.1 cm); sheet: 18 7/16 × 13 3/16" (46.8 × 33.5 cm)
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Purchase
Accession
282.1974.12
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