ID 1209922
Lot 817 | JEAN (HANS) ARP (1895-1965)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Arp, J.(H.)
Gueule de fleur
white marble
Height: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1960; unique
Provenance
Galerie du Perron, Geneva.
James Wise, Tourettes.
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1979, lot 319.
Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 May 1987, lot 343.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
G. Marchiori, Arp, Milan, 1964, p. 155, no. 139 (illustrated, p. 154).
E. Trier, intro., Jean Arp Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 111, no. 207 (bronze version illustrated, p. 110).
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 77.
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 150-151, no. 207 (bronze version illustrated, p. 150).
Exhibited
Geneva, Galerie du Perron, Hommage à Jean-Hans Arp, June-September 1962, no. 14 (illustrated).
Further details
We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.
| Artist: | Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) |
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| Artist: | Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) |
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