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Jean Arp

Fruit préadamite

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Estate

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Fruit préadamite

marble

height: 11¾ in.

29.8 cm.

Conceived in 1938; this marble example is unique and was executed in 1960. 

Galerie Pierre, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1960 by the present owner 
Carola Giedion-Welcker and James Thrall Soby, Arp, 1958, New York, no. 78, p. 72, illustration of the bronze
Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 51, p. 84, illustration of another version