Lot 51
51
Property of a COLLECTOR
JEAN (HANS) ARP

Details
JEAN (HANS) ARP

Concretion humaine sur coupe

with raised monogram HA and numbered III/III on the inside --bronze with brown patina
Length: 23 5/8 in. (60 cm.)

Conceived in 1947, cast 1963-1964; number three in an edition of three
Provenance
Edouard Loeb, Paris
Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired by the present owner Dec. 16, 1964)
Literature
C. Gideon-Welcker, Jean Arp, New York, 1957, p. 110, no. 83 (another cast illustrated)
G. Marchiori, Arp, Milan, 1964, p. 99, no. 79 (marble version illustrated)
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, pp. 92-93 (marble version illustrated,
p. 89, no. 93)
Exhibited
London, Brook Street Gallery, Arp, 1964, no. 25 (illustrated on the cover)

Lot Essay

According to the Fondation Arp in a letter dated Clamart, March 5, 1991 there is a marble version of this (without a bowl) which dates from 1934 now in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.