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                                    THE SURREALIST WORLD OF ROSALIND GERSTEN JACOBS AND MELVIN JACOBS
                            
                            JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
                            Découpage No. 8 dite "Ecriture"
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                                            JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Découpage No. 8 dite "Ecriture"
signed with monogram and numbered '8' (on the reverse)
brass with black patina
12 x 8 3⁄8 in. (30.5 x 21.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1957
                                        
                                    Découpage No. 8 dite "Ecriture"
signed with monogram and numbered '8' (on the reverse)
brass with black patina
12 x 8 3⁄8 in. (30.5 x 21.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1957
Provenance
                                        
                                            Acquired from the artist through William and Noma Copley by the late owners, February 1958.
                                        
                                    Literature
                                        
                                            B. Rau and M. Seuphor, Hans Arp: Die Reliefs, Oeuvre-Katalog, Stuttgart, 1981, p. 261, no. 546 (another cast illustrated).
                                        
                                    Exhibited
                                        
                                            Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000.
                                        
                                    Further details
                                        
                                            We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.