Jean Arp

Torse-gerbe

Artist's Resale RightReduced VAT applies

Auction Closed

October 23, 02:05 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 EUR

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Description

Property from a New York Estate

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966

Torse-gerbe

stamped with the raised monogram HA and numbered IV/V (on the interior of the base)

bronze

height: 79.4 cm; 31 ¼ in.

Conceived in 1958, this example cast in 1962 by the Georges Rudier foundry, Paris.

Edouard Loeb, New York

Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in January 1963)

Private collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Michael Seuphor, Universe Sculpture Series: Arp, Amsterdam, 1961, no. 19, another version illustrated

Herbert Read, Arp, London, 1968, no. 114, pp. 100 and 207, another version illustrated

Eduoard Trier, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, no. 180, pp. 6 and 109, another version illustrated

Kai Fischer and Arie Hartog, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 180, p. 137, another version illustrated

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