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Property from a New York Estate

Jean Arp

Torse-gerbe

Session begins in

November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Bid

600,000 USD

Lot Details

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: 31 ¼ in. 79.4 cm. 

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)

Acquired by descent from the above and given to the late owner


Michael Seuphor, Universe Sculpture Series: Arp, Amsterdam, 1961, no. 19, illustration of the marble version 

Herbert Read, Arp, London, 1968, no. 114, p. 100, illustration of the marble version; p. 207

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

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