Jacques POLI (1938-2002). Nut and Spring on Red Background, 1971. Mixed media on waxed canvas, signed and dated on the back (minor soiling and rubbing). Height 53 cm - Width: 73 cm Provenance : - Private collection of a member of the collector's collective La Peau du Chat, then by descent. Note : French painter who found himself grouped alongside the Figuration Narrative painters Joël Kermarrec, Jan Voss and Hervé Télémaque thanks to Gérard Gassiot-Talabot, an influential art critic who grouped these 1960-1970 artists under this name. Our work is part of his series on industrial tools, in which the artist plays on the ambivalence of the mechanical and human worlds, using spray paint on stretched waxed canvas. It's almost a questioning of the system and mechanical logic.