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Lot 37
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Jean Arp

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Arp
  • Torse de Chorée
  • numbered 2/3 on the underside
  • bronze
  • Bronze: 46 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. 118.1 x 21 x 24.1 cm. Overall: 82 3/8 x 59 3/8 x 24 1/2 in. 209.2 x 59.4 x 62.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1961, this work was cast in 1973 and is number two from an edition of three.

Provenance

Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Acquired by the present owner from the above in February 1975

 

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Jean Arp, 1973
Paris, Galerie Denise René, Hommage à Jean Arp, 1974, cat. no. 45, n.p., illustrated
Krefeld, Kunsthaus Lange, Hans Arp 1887 - 1966, 1975, cat. no. 1
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Sammlung Helga und Walther Lauffs - Amerikanische und europäische Kunst der sechziger und siebziger Jahre, November 1983 - April 1984, cat. no. 7, p. 8, illustrated
Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Schwerpunkt Skulptur, June - October 1992

 

Literature

Eduard Trier, Jean Arp: Sculptures 1957 - 1966, Stuttgart, 1968, no. 255, illustrated (marble version) 
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Schwerpunkt Skulptur: Hundertvierzig Werke von achtzig Künstlern, 1950-1990, Bonn, 1992, cat. no. 10, p. 7, illustrated