Lot 149: WIM T. SCHIPPERS

WIM T. SCHIPPERS B.1942 DE DEUK - ARTTAXI, MODEL mixed media 27 by 86 by 32 cm.; base: 110 by 95 by 40 cm. Executed circa 1982.

Acquired directly from the artist in 1982

The present lot represents a model for Project Arttaxi. In 1982 the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation commissioned four artists to each transform a Paris taxi into a 'mobile work of art'. Models were designed by François Morellet, Wim T. Schippers, Daniël Spoerri and Michelangelo Pistoletto. The taxis were presented to public and press on the square in front of the Centre Pompidou. After opperating for two years and transporting tens of thousands of passengers, the taxis were taken out of circulation to be exhibited as part of the Peter Stuyvesant Collection.

(From: Renilde Hammacher-van den Brande, Art works, International modern art in the industrial working environment, an experiment over more than thirty years, Amsterdam 1992, p. 17, 26.)