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Property from the Collection of Wilma (Billie) and Laurence Tisch
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Grand personnage
Details
JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Grand personnage
signed with monogram, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark '3⁄3 Susse Fond': Paris' (to the interior)
bronze with brown patina
65 ¾ x 11 1⁄8 x 10 ½ in. (166.9 x 28.3 x 26.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1957; this bronze version cast in November 1961
Grand personnage
signed with monogram, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark '3⁄3 Susse Fond': Paris' (to the interior)
bronze with brown patina
65 ¾ x 11 1⁄8 x 10 ½ in. (166.9 x 28.3 x 26.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1957; this bronze version cast in November 1961
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by April 1963).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1979, lot 316A.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1979, lot 316A.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
G. Marchiori, Arp, Milan, 1964, p. 60, fig. 44 (detail of another cast illustrated in-situ).
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, pp. 206-207, no. 116 (another cast illustrated).
E. Trier, M. Arp-Hagenbach and F. Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 107, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 128, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).
H. Read, Arp, London, 1968, pp. 206-207, no. 116 (another cast illustrated).
E. Trier, M. Arp-Hagenbach and F. Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 107, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 128, no. 157 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition of Sculpture by Jean Arp in Marble, Bronze and Wood Relief from the Years 1923-63, April-May 1963, no. 16 (illustrated).
Further Details
We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help cataloguing this work.
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale