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Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966)
Poupée-basset
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Arp 3/3 E. GODARD Fondr Paris' (on the underside)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 1958 in. (49.9 cm.)
Conceived in 1965; this bronze version cast in 1970
Provenance
Edouard Loeb, Paris (May 1971).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
Literature
E. Trier, intro., Jean Arp: Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 129, no. 345a.
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 83, no. 345.
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, p. 390, no. 345a.
Exhibited
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Von Venus zu Venus, September-October 1972.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Petit Formats, May-July 1978, no. 6 (illustrated in color).
Bogotá, Quinta Galería, Esculturas, 2010.
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