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Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Feuille se reposant

bronze

length: 60.7 cm. 23⅞ in.

Conceived in 1959; this example cast by Georges Rudier Foundry, Paris between 1960 and 1977. This work is number 1 from an edition of 5 plus 1 zero cast.

Galerie Denise René, Paris (acquired by 1960)

Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired by 1964)

Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 1981, lot 403

Alexander Iolas, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner

Giuseppe Marchiori, Arp avec deux poèmes de Arp, Milan, 1964, no. 121, p. 139, another cast illustrated

Herbert Read, Arp, London, 1968, no. 183, p. 159, another cast illustrated (titled Flower Resting and dated 1962)

Eduard Trier, Jean Arp Sculptures 1957-1966, Stuttgart, 1968, no. 195, p. 24, marble version illustrated

Ionel Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, pl. 24, n.p., marble version illustrated; nos. 195, 195a and 195b, p. 76, another cast listed

Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 195, p. 322, another cast illustrated; this cast listed

London, Brook Street Gallery, Arp, 1964, no. 10, n.p., illustrated