Daphné I

细节

Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)
Daphné I
bronze with green patina
Height: 47¾ in. (121.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1955; this version cast before 1957 as number one in an edition of three

来源

Collection Frigerio, Paris.
Mme Arp, Solduno.
Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner on 16 August 1966.

出版

C. Giedion-Welcker, Hans Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 138 (illustrated pp. 92-93).
S. Poley, Hans Arp, Die Formensprache im plastischen Werk, Stuttgart, 1978, pp. 30-32, 100 & 106 (another cast illustrated p. 31).

展览

Basel, Galerie d'Art Moderne, Sculptures, 1966, no. 3 (illustrated).

注意事项

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拍品专文

'The content of a sculpture,' wrote Arp in 1955, 'has to come forward on tiptoe, unpretentious and as light as the spoor of an animal in the snow. Art has to melt into nature. It should even be confused with nature. But this should be attained not by imitation but by the opposite of naturalistic copying on canvas or stone. Art will thus rid itself more and more of selfishness, virtuosity, and foolishness' (quoted in M. Jean (ed.), Jean (Hans) Arp, Collected French Writings, London, 1972, p. 341).

Daphné I, conceived by Arp in 1955, is a proudly organic form, with its soft, wavering silhouette suggestive of transformation and growth. Transformation, indeed, is at the heart of Daphné I. The form is derived and adpapted from an earlier Arp sculpture, Ptolémée I of 1953, while the title itself alludes to the mythical nymph Daphne who was metamorphosed into a laurel tree as she was pursued by Apollo. The flowing form of Daphné I, however, is offset by the jagged geometry of the counterposed cubes of its socle.