Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Jean (Hans) Arp
Torse d'ange
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
Jean (Hans) Arp
1886 - 1966
Torse d'ange
inscribed ARP and numbered 0/3
bronze
height: 91cm., 35⅞in.
Conceived in 1963 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 3 plus 3 artist's proofs. This example was cast by Franco Amici, Bronzart SA, Mendrisio in 1964.
Franco Amici, Fondeur Bronzart, Mendrisio
Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Eduard Trier, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach & François Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, no. 287, illustration of another cast p. 120
Arie Hartog (ed.), Hans Arp, Skulpturen, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 287, the marble version illustrated and the present cast listed p. 188
Arie Hartog (ed.), Hans Arp, Skulpturen, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 287, the marble version illustrated and the present cast listed p. 188