Bruce CONNER (1933-2008). "Armpit", 1958. Mixed media with a poem by Michael McClure, signed, dated and located in San Francisco on the back. Height 29 cm - Width 29 cm Provenance: - The Alan Gallery, New York ; - Sale by public auction on December 5, 1971, at Maître Binoche, Paris, under number 37; - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Note: Spurred on by his childhood friend Michael McClure, an American poet and playwright who had moved to San Francisco in 1955, Bruce Conner moved to San Francisco in 1957 and joined the Beat Generation. He developed a body of work based on the misappropriation of mass-media images, which he combined with collages incorporating salvaged materials and objects. He is also a pioneer of experimental cinema, now recognized the world over.