Born near Cannes in 1936. French painter and a self-taught artist. his early works were assemblages which included plastic objects. He took prefabricated materials and used them, associating him with the movement, Nouveau Realisme. In 1961 at the Paris Biennale he presented a work called "Hygiene of Vision" which parodied the shop window displays of cheap products. He had a vision of a new and antiseptic modern world. He anticipated the work of the Pop Artists, who also used objects and images deriving from advertising and he created transparent assemblages, enclosing everyday objects in plastic boxes, like a selection of samples of the outside world. he liked to exhibit the object in its own right and in its original purity.