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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jean Arp

Orou

Session begins in

May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Orou

bronze

length: 14 ¼ in. 36.2 cm.

Conceived in 1953; this example cast in 1975 by the George Rudier foundry as number 0 from an edition of 5 plus 1 artist’s proof.

Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, Switzerland (acquired directly from the artist)

Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Acquired from the above in May 1983 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Jean Arp, 1954, no. 16, n.p., illustration of the marble version

Michel Seuphor, Arp, Paris, 1957, p. 47, illustration of the marble version

Carola Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 125, p. 79, illustration of the marble version; p. 112

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Arp, 1958, no. 99, p. 97, illustration of the marble version

Giuseppe Marchiori, Arp: avec deux poèmes de Arp, Milan, 1964, no. 102, p. 122, illustratration of the marble version 

Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Strasbourg, Musée d’art moderne; Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arp 1886-1966, 1986, no. 228, p. 217, illustration of the marble version; p. 308 

Kai Fischer and Arie Hartog, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 125, pp. 113 and 288, illustration of the marble version