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Jean Arp

Silence

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November 19, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Bid

100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Silence

inscribed with the artist’s monogram and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris and numbered 2/3 (on the underside)

bronze

height (excluding base): 48 ⅜ in. 123 cm.

Conceived in 1953; this example cast in 1974 as number 2 from an edition of 3.

Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired in September 1974)

Christie's, London, 23 October 1998, lot 27

Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, Paris, 16 October 2019, lot 20 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Carola Gieldion-Welcker, Jean Arp, New York, 1957, no. 124, p. 111

Herbert Read, The Art of Jean Arp, New York, 1968, no. 108, p. 96, illustration of another cast (dated 1949)

Ionel Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 124, p. 73

Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 124, p. 288, illustration of another cast