Initiale d'une feuille

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JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966)
Initiale d'une feuille

bronze with brown patina
Height: 33 in. (87.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1960; executed in bronze in an edition of five numbered 1 to 5; this example cast by Mounier in January 1966

Provenance

Fondation Arp, Clamart, circa 1977.
On loan to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, from 1980.
Stiftung Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Remagen.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 22 December 1998.

Literature

E. Trier, Jean Arp Sculpture, 1957-1966, London, 1968, no. 215, p. 113 (another cast illustrated pl. 39).
J. von Oppenheim, 10 Jahre Sammlung Sal. Oppenheim, 10 Years Collection, 1997-2007, Luxembourg, 2007, p. 416 (illustrated again n.p.).
A. Hartog & K. Fischer, Hans Arp, Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 215, p. 154 (another cast illustrated).

Special Notice

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Further Details

We thank the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their help in cataloguing this work.

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Lot Essay

'We detect in Arp the profound experience of life, which conceives of creation as an eternal process, as permanent transformation and growth ... This is why Arp's initial forms strike us as being so ready to be transmuted, so filled with inner organic tension' (J. Arp quoted in C. Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, London, 1957, pp. xxvii and xxviii).

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