LOT DETAILS

Materials:

painted wood relief on board

Measurements:

31.10 in. (79.00 cm.) (height) by 23.62 in. (60.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Arp, 1928, no. 17 Paris, Galerie Goemans, Arp, 1929, no. 1 (titled Deux torses tenant par la bride une tête de cheval) Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Arp, 1962, no. 57 Geneva, Galerie du Perron, Arp, 1962, no. 1, illustrated in the catalogue London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 8.3, ilustrated in color in the catalogue (as dating from 1922) Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: Minneapolis Institute of Art: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arp - 1886-1966 1986-88, no. 80, illustrated in color in the catalogue Nuremberg, Kunsthalle, Hans Arp, 1994-95, no. 29, illustrated in color in the catalogue Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder das Auge des Eros, 1994, no. 36, illustrated in color in the catalogue Barcelona, Fondacio Joan Miró, Hans Arp, 2001-02, no. 45, illustrated in color in the catalogue Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Jean Arp Retrospectiva, 1915-1966, 2006, no. 8, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Bahnhof Rolandseck, Arp Museum, Hans Arp, Die Natur der Dinge, 2007-08, no. 41, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Bernd Rau, Jean Arp, The Reliefs, Catalogue of Complete Works, Stuttgart, 1981, no. 68, illustrated p. 40 Serge Fouchereau, Arp, London, 1989, no. 146, illustrated in color p. 107

Provenance:

Galerie Berggruen, Paris James Wise, Geneva & New York Galerie du Perron, Geneva (by 1962) Brook Street Gallery, London Galerie Tarica, Paris Acquired from the above by the present owners