LOT DETAILS

Materials:

white marble

Measurements:

39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

unique

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Arp, February-April 1962, p. 60, no. 125 (illustrated on the cover). London, Tate Gallery, Jean Arp: Sculpture, Reliefs, Paintings, Collages, Tapestries, November-December 1962, no. 48 (dated 1960). New York, Beadleston Gallery, Inc., The Herbert J. & Adele Klapper Collection, May 2002, no. 4 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, p. 148, no. 175 (small bronze version illustrated in color, p. 149). E. Trier, intro, Jean Arp Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 113, no. 212a (small bronze version illustrated, p. 112). I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 77, no. 212a (illustrated, pl. 39). A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 332, no. 212a (illustrated).

Provenance:

Galerie Denise René, Paris (probably acquired from the artist). Mrs. Henry A. Markus, Chicago (acquired from the above, 1962); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 13 November 1985, lot 83. Weintraub Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the late owners, 7 January 1986.