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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Fruit préadamite
Details
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Fruit préadamite
signed with monogram, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark '4⁄5 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the underside)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1938 and cast in 1973
Fruit préadamite
signed with monogram, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark '4⁄5 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the underside)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1938 and cast in 1973
Provenance
Galerie d'Art Moderne, Basel.
Chalette International (Madeleine Chalette Lejwa), New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, October 1983.
Chalette International (Madeleine Chalette Lejwa), New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, October 1983.
Literature
C. Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, p. 109, no. 51.
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, p. 207, no. 131 (larger marble version illustrated, p. 106; dated 1962).
E. Trier, intro., Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 119, no. 275 (larger marble version illustrated, p. 72, pl. 74).
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 69, no. 51.
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 84-85, no. 51 (marble version illustrated, p. 84).
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, p. 207, no. 131 (larger marble version illustrated, p. 106; dated 1962).
E. Trier, intro., Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 119, no. 275 (larger marble version illustrated, p. 72, pl. 74).
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 69, no. 51.
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 84-85, no. 51 (marble version illustrated, p. 84).
Further details
We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.
Brought to you by
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale