Jean Arp

Succession Jean Arp
Vente : Christie's, Londres, 4 avril 1989, lot 339
Vente : Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 10 juin 1993, lot 6
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel

Berne, Klipstein and Kornfeld, Hans Arp, 1962, no. 115, illustré

Executed on a cream wove card; not laid down. The card is taped to the overmount along the vertical edges. Apart from some time staining, this work is in very good condition.
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Albert Eugène Gallatin (1881-1952) est le fondateur du premier musée d'art moderne à New York. Situé dans les locaux de la New York University de 1927 à 1943, la Gallery of Living Art, renommée Museum of Living Art en 1936 expose Picasso, Braque, Léger, Miro, Arp, Man Ray et Calder entre autres. Ce lieu est, d'après les mots de son fondateur, un laboratoire d'exploration et d'expérimentation pour les jeunes artistes expressionnistes abstraits américains. La collection de Gallatin intègre par la suite le Philadelphia Museum of Art en 1952.

collage on paper. Executed in 1932.