Jean Arp
Ptolémée III
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jean Arp
(1886-1966)
Ptolémée III
bronze
height: 78 ¾ in. 200 cm.
height including base: 110 in. 280 cm.
Conceived in 1961 and cast in an edition of 3; this example numbered 3 in the edition and cast in February 1969 by the Susse Foundry, Paris.
Marguerite Arp, France (acquired by descent from the artist)
Dominion Gallery, Montreal (acquired from the above in 1969)
Umberto Erculiani, Lucerne (acquired from the above on March 10, 1978 and until at least 1984)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above)
Institutional Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired in 2019 from the above by the present owner
Basel, Merian-Park, Skulptur im 20.Jahrhundert, 1984, no. 10, p. 218
Giuseppe Marchiori, Arp, Milan, 1964, p. 56; illustration of the plaster (in photograph of the artist’s Meudon studio); p. 66, illustration of the plaster (in installation image of Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Exposition Arp, 1962)
Exh. Cat., Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hans Arp, Ivo Hauptmann, 1966, no. 24, p. 9, illustration of another cast
Eduard Trier, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach and Françcois Arp, Jean Arp: Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, Stuttgart, 1968, no. 265, p. 118, illustrated; p. 119, illustration of another cast
Herbert Read, The Art of Jean Arp, New York, 1968, illustration of another cast on the cover; no. 199, no. 181, p. 63, illustration of the plaster (in installation image of Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Exposition Arp, 1962); p. 157, illustration in color of another cast; p. 210
Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (and traveling),
Arp, 1886-1966, 1986-87, p. 297, illustrated (in photograph with the artist)
Serge Fauchereau, Arp, London, 1989, no. 111, p. 86 and 127; p. 87, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Wight Art Gallery, In the Sculptor’s Landscape: Celebrating Twenty-five Years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, 1993, pl. 2, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, Schwitters_Arp, 2004, no. 82, p. 249; p. 263, illustration in color of another cast
Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures–A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 265, pp. 178 and 357, illustrations in color of another case
Exh. Cat., Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Rodin Arp, 2020-21, pl. 40, illustration in color of another cast
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