Acc. № 134 · Archive reference image
Design Objects № 134
Le Geste Subversif: Paris, 1963
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Exhibition poster for a sculpture or objet d'art titled *Le Geste Subversif* (The Subversive Gesture), documented at a Parisian curiosity cabinet in 1963. The work depicts a figure in a cape making a two-fingered peace sign—a posture that predates widespread counterculture adoption, suggesting an earlier artistic interrogation of gesture, authority, and dissent. The spare typography and institutional framing present the piece as museum artifact rather than protest image, creating productive ambiguity about whether subversion is being celebrated or catalogued. Collector appeal: curators interested in 1960s European conceptual art, the genealogy of political symbols in sculpture, or the phantom histories of pre-Pop avant-garde.
Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
1536 × 2752 px · 4.2 MP · portrait
- Section
- Design Objects
- Style
- minimalist museum poster, sculptural photography
- Mood
- austere, defiant, historically uncanny
- Palette
- cream, gray, white
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