Arp spent most of his life in France and Switzerland where he was an active member of the Dada and Surrealist groups. During and after World War I, he achieved success as a sculptor, printmaker and poet. He began to make freestanding sculpture in the 1930s. While his lyrical forms come close to total abstraction, they always symbolize some aspect of nature.
Details
- Artist Name: Hans (Jean) Arp (French, 1886-1966)
- Title: Classical Sculpture
- Date: 1960
- Medium: Bronze
- Edition: Edition of 5, Cast No. 2
- Dimensions: 50-5/8 x 8-1/2 x 7 in. (128.6 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1968.38.S
- Copyright: © Hans (Jean) Arp / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Reproduction
Object Information
Leonard Rosen, Miami;
Weintraub Gallery, New York, sold 31 October 1968 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Jean Arp
- New York, Galerie Chalette, 1965-01 to 1965-02
Recent Acquisitions by the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-01-24 to
Modern Sculpture from the Norton Simon, Inc., Museum of Art and the Norton Simon Foundation
- Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-09-25 to 1973-11-25
Impossible Realities: Marcel Duchamp and the Surrealist Tradition
- Norton Simon Museum, 1991-07-04 to 1992-03-08
- Galerie Chalette, Jean Arp, 1965, no. 9
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 546 pp. 310-311
- Hartog, Arie, Hans Arp Skulpturen, 2012, Fig. 240 p. 345
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