ID 1306110
Lot 27 | JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
Figure-germe dite l'après-midinette
signed with the artist’s monogram and numbered 'III/V' (inside the base)
polished bronze
Height: 31 ¾ in. (80.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1959 and cast in bronze by Georges Rudier in an edition of five plus one; this example cast on 9 November 1962
Provenance
Edouard Loeb, Paris.
Galerie Chalette [Madeleine Lejwa], New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 1978, lot 405.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 17 November 2016, lot 1211.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
E. Trier, Jean Arp, Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, no. 187, p. 109 (another cast illustrated pl. 22).
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 187, p. 76.
A. Hartog & K. Fischer, Hans Arp, Sculptures: A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 187, p. 318 (another version illustrated).
Further Details
We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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