Jean Arp

François Arp (brother of the artist)
Ruth Tillard Arp (by descent from the above)
Received as a gift from the above by the present owner

Stefanie Poley, Hans Arp: Die Formensprache im plastichen Werk, Stuttgart, 1978, no. 46a, illustrated p. 183

Polished white marble, with some natural veins in places. Some handling marks in places to the protruding area, consistent with age and handling. Some white plaster spots possibly from the artist's studio. Some yellowed discolouration in three places to the base from a previous support. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition.
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'Often some detail in one of my sculptures, a curve or a contrast that moves me, becomes the germ of a new work. I accentuate the curve or the contrast and this leads to the birth of new forms... Sometimes it will take months, even years, to work out a new sculpture. I do not give up until enough of my life has flowed into its body. Each of these bodies has a definite significance, but it is only when I feel there is nothing more to change that I decide what this is, and it is only then that I give it a name'. 
(Jean Arp quoted in Herbert Read, Arp, London, 1968, p. 87)