JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)

Lot 52
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ID 842709
Lot 52 | JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
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$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)

Château des oiseaux

white marble

Height: 19 1/2 in. (49.6 cm.)

Width: 16 3/4 (42.8 cm.)

Conceived and carved in 1963; unique





Provenance

Denise René, Paris.

Henry Markus, Chicago (1964).

Staempfli Gallery, New York.

Robert W. and Anna Moffo Sarnoff, New York (acquired from the above, 1 March 1965); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 November 2006, lot 444.

Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.



Literature

W. Stechow, Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 1967, p. 168.

E. Trier, M. Arp-Hagenbach and F. Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 123, no. 300a (illustrated, p. 79, fig. 82).

A. Hartog and K. Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 193 and 372, no. 300a (illustrated, pp. 193 and 372).



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