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In
1976 starting with a GS X2, the artist Jean-Pierre Lihou created his
concept of the "Energetique" by performing a color progression of 73
different colors combined with a module of arrows, all readable in two
directions.
Lihou originally intended to apply this them to a CX as
a mobile painting in order to explore the interpretation of dynamic
concepts with evidence of forces that are the arrows and lines of
tension.
Jacques Wolgensinger who was the director of public relations for
Citroën was immediately captivated by the project and with the help of
his assistant Mme. Marlène Cotton they provided all the necessary
assistance.
Senior management would not let him touch the CX since it was the new
flagship of the brand and it was felt rather risky to let an artist
loose on it.
It was therefore agreed that it would be a GS that he would work on.
He painted the GS during the month of July 1976 in an old carpentry
shop in the Citroën factory in Paris.
The completion of the the car took 500 hours of work and seventy-three
small pots of paint of different colors.
In January 1977 the GS was presented to the public at the Citroën
showroom in the Champs-Elysees where it met with widespread approval.
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