Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)
Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)

Torse des Pyrénées

細節
Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)
Torse des Pyrénées
marble
Height: 41 in. (104.1 cm.)
Width: 23 in. (58 cm.)
Depth: 12½ in. (31.8 cm.)
Executed in 1959
來源
Galerie Pierre, Paris (1959).
Leigh B. Block, Chicago; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1988, lot 63.
Fujii Gallery, Tokyo.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1989, lot 430.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
出版
E. Trier, Jean Arp Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 109, no. 188 (illustrated, p. 19, no. 20).

拍品專文

In 1931, Arp made a small marble Torso 141/8 inches high with a serpentine curve to the spine and no suggestion of legs (Read, no. 90). In 1957 he produced a bronze cast of this image, in an edition of three, approximately three feet in height (Read, no. 118). This may have inspired him two years later to carve the present work, which is larger still and further refined by the addition of forms simulating female thighs.

"Arp's figures are always torsos. The language of his form demands this--it knows no extremities. A display of subtlety, gesticulating forms that express some ingenious idea would certainly have been anathema to him. Arp knows only the torso, but not as a fragment of something originally whole. The torso becomes an independent complete form" (E. Trier, op. cit., p. xi).