Untitled from The New Realists (Les Nouveaux réalistes)

Raymond Hains was a French artist whose installation practice emerged from his engagement with found materials and urban debris, particularly torn posters and deteriorated billboard fragments. Working from the 1950s onward, he transformed ephemeral street surfaces into contemplative sculptural and wall-based works that blurred the distinction between art object and urban detritus. His installations often incorporated layered paper, typography, and the accidental compositions created by weathering and time.

Saint-Brieuc, France