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Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection

Jean Arp

Tête d’étoile

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Tête d’étoile

marble

height (including base): 58.3 cm. 23 in.

Executed in 1964. This work is unique.

Eduard Loeb, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1964)

Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired in 1972)

Galerie Motte, Geneva (acquired in June 1976)

Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

Christie's, New York, 3 November 1982, lot 76

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York and Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired jointly from the above sale)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Acquired from the above in January 1990 by the present owners

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, L’Éternel féminin, 1989-90, no. 3, illustrated in colour

Eduard Trier, Jean Arp, Sculptures 1957-1966, Stuttgart, 1968, no. 313, p. 124, illustrated

Ionel Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 313, p. 82, listed

Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 313, p. 378, illustrated