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The Collection of Sybil Shainwald

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

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Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of Sybil Shainwald 

Sophie Taeuber-Arp 

(1889 - 1943)


Personnages

stamped Oeuvre Sophie Taeuber-Arp and dated 1926/9 (on the verso)

gouache, metallic paint and pencil on paper

13 ⅞ by 10 ¼ in. 

35.1 by 26.1 cm. 

Executed in 1926. 


We wish to thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart for its kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.

François Arp, Paris (acquired by descent from the artist) 

Ruth Tillard-Arp, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Private Collection, France (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby’s, Paris, 30 May 2012, lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Jedermann Collection (Frank Kolodny), Princeton (acquired from the above in 2013)

Acquired from the above in 2013 by the present owner



Kunstmuseum Basel; London, Tate Modern; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sophie Taeuber-Arp Living Abstraction, 2021-22, no. 145, p. 132, illustrated in color; p. 325 (New York only)

Georg Schmidt, ed., Sophie Taeuber-Arp (with an oeuvre catalogue by Hugo Weber), Basel, 1948, p. 130, no. 1926/9