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Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)
Formes se prêtant à l'interprétation
painted wood relief
47 1/8 x 39 3/8 in. (119.6 x 100 cm.)
Executed in 1949

来源

John Senior, Jr., New York.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (no. 801), by 1950.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in April 1957.

出版

C. Estienne, 'Sophie Taeuber-Arp et Jean Arp', in Art Aujourd'hui, I, 1949/1950, Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1949/1950, p. 10 & 11 (illustrated). B. Rau (ed.), Hans Arp. Die Reliefs. Oeuvre-Katalog, Stuttgart, 1981, no. 378 (illustrated p. 183)

展览

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp, January - February 1950, no. 18 (illustrated).
Ginals, Centre d'Art Contemporain de l'Abbaye de Beaulieu en Rouergue, Le relief, des années cinquante à nos jours, 1989, no. 1.

注意事项

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拍品专文

'Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. But whereas the fruit of the plant, the fruit of the animal, the fruit in the mother's womb, assume autonomous and natural forms, art, the spiritual fruit of man, usually shows an absurd resemblance to the aspect of something else. Only in our own epoch have painting and sculpture been liberated from the aspect of a mandolin, a president in a Prince Albert, a battle, a landscape. I love nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist illusionist art is a substitute for nature.

I remember a discussion with Mondrian in which he distinguished between art and nature, saying that art is artificial and nature natural. I do not share his opinion. I believe that nature is not in opposition to art. Art is of natural origin and is sublimated and spiritualized.' (Hans Arp: 'Art is a fruit', 1948 cited in ed. Marcel Jean, Jean (Hans) Arp: Collected French writings, Poems, Essays, Memories, London, 1963, p. 241)