LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pink limestone

Size Notes:

19

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Jean Arp, 1949, no. 4 (titled Bad Fruit); Zurich, Kunsthaus, Thompson Collection: Aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, 1960, no. 282 (titled Bse Frucht); Ithaca,Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The David M. Solinger Collection: Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Art, 2002-03, p. 17, illustrated in color (titled Naughty Fruit and listed as French marble)

Literature:

Carola Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, New York, 1967, no. 27, p. 109 (titled Angry Fruit); Ionel Jianu, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 27, p. 67; Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Wrttembergischer Kunstverein and traveling, Arp 1886-1966, 1986-88, no. 154, p. 160, illustrated; Margherita Andreotti, The Early Sculpture of Jean Arp, Ann Arbor, 1989, pp. 284-85, no. 59, fig. 113, n.p., illustrated (titled Naughty Fruit); Kai Fischer and Arie Hertog, eds., Hans Arp: SculpturesA Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 27, p. 75, illustrated

Provenance:

David Thompson, Pittsburgh (until at least 1960); Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; Acquired from the above in 1963 by the present owner