JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)

Lot 130
28.02.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 800 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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ID 908079
Lot 130 | JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Valeur estimée
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)

Grand personnage

signed with the artist's monogram, numbered '2/3' and inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the inside of the base)

polished bronze

Height: 65 5/8 in. (166.8 cm.)

Conceived in 1957; this version cast in July 1958





Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (no. 1717).

Robert and Beatrice Mayer, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above on 13 January 1961, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

J. Thrall Soby, Arp, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 112, p. 123 (another cast illustrated pl. 112; titled 'Great Lady').

Exh. cat., Jean Arp: sculpture, reliefs, paintings, collages, tapestries, Tate Gallery, London, 1962, no. 34.

Exh. cat., Exhibition of sculpture by Jean Arp in marble bronze and wood relief from the years 1923-63, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1963, no. 16 (another cast illustrated).

G. Marchiori, Arp, Milan, 1964 (detail of another cast illustrated fig. 44, p. 60).

H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, no. 116, p. 207 (illustrated p. 206).

E. Trier, M. Arp-Hagenbach & F. Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 107, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).

Exh. cat., Jean Arp, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, 1985, no. 20, p. 112 (another cast illustrated).

Exh. cat., Hans Arp, Die Metamorphose der Figur, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1991, no. 10, p. 169 (another cast illustrated p. 64).

B. Mayer, The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art, New York, 2011 (illustrated p. 61).

A. Hartog & K. Fischer, Hans Arp, Sculptures - a Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 157, p. 128 (another cast illustrated; with incorrect provenance).



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We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.
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