JEAN (HANS) ARP (1887-1966)
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1887-1966)
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JEAN (HANS) ARP (1887-1966)

Tête florale

Details
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1887-1966)
Tête florale
signed with monogram and numbered '3⁄5' (on the inside)
polished bronze
Height: 18 ½ in. (47 cm.)
Conceived in 1960 and cast in 1962
Provenance
Edouard Loeb, Paris.
Albert Loeb Gallery, New York.
Doris and Jerome Hirschmann, Winnetka, Illinois and Palm Beach (acquired from the above, circa 1970); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 314.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, p. 207, no. 125 (another cast illustrated).
E. Trier, M. Arp-Hagenbach and F. Arp, Jean Arp Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 115, no. 239 (another cast illustrated).
S. Poley, Hans Arp, Die Formensprache im Plastichenwerk, Stuttgart, 1978, p. 188.
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 166-167, no. 239 (another cast illustrated, p. 166).
Further details
We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.

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