Jean Arp

Torse enjoué

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Jean Arp

(1886 - 1966)

Torse enjoué

stamped with artist's monogram and numbered V/V (on the interior)

bronze

height: 43 ¼ in. 110 cm.

Conceived in 1965 and cast in a posthumous edition of 5; this example cast by Rudier on 7 February 1973.

Galerie Artcurial, Paris

Edouard Loeb, Paris

Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above on 21 April 1978 by the present owner

Musée des Beaux-Arts du Havre, Jean Arp, 1973 (not in catalogue)

Eduard Trier, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach and François Arp, Jean Arp: Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, no. 355, p. 128, illustration of another cast; p. 129

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Español de arte contemporáneo, Jean Arp, [1886-1966]: Esculturas/ Relieves/Obra Sobre Papel/Tapices, 1985, no. 59, p. 134, illustration of another cast

Claude Weil-Seigeot and Renaud Ego, Atelier Jean Arp et Sophie Taeuber, Paris, 2012, pp. 18 and 24, illustration in color of another cast (in photographs of Fondation Arp’s sculpture garden); p. 198, illustration in color of another cast

Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures–A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 355, pp. 194 and 215, illustration of another cast