Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from the Neumann Family Collection
Jean Arp
Calligraphie de nombrils
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Neumann Family Collection
Jean Arp
1886 - 1966
Calligraphie de nombrils
signed Arp (on the reverse); signed Arp (on the artist's label)
painted wood relief
11 ⅞ by 15 ¼ in.
30.2 by 38.7 cm.
Executed in 1928.
Private Collection, Zurich
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Galerie Suzanne Bollag, Zurich
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Bernd Rau, Jean Arp: The Reliefs. Catalogue of Complete Works, Stuttgart 1981, no. 161, p. 83, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Goemans, Arp, 1929, no. 2 (titled Objets placés comme écriture)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Selected Works., 1980, no. 20, p. 38, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Selected Works., 1980, no. 20, p. 38, illustrated