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Property from a Private Collection, Chicago

Jean Arp

Oiseau-tripode

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection, Chicago

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966

Oiseau-tripode 


inscribed Arp (on the underside)

bronze

height: 25¾ in.

65.4 cm.

Conceived in 1958; this example executed as number 3 from a numbered edition of 5 by the Rudier Foundry, Paris.

Galerie de l’Elysée, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above in August 1960)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Eduard Trier, Jean Arp Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, no. 181, p. 15, illustration of another cast 
Exh. Cat, Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Jean Arp, 1886-1966: Esculturas, relieves, obra sobre papel, tapices, 1985, no. 23, p. 123, illustration of another cast
Arie Hartog & Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 181, p. 137, illustration of another cast