Lot 54: JEAN  ARP

PROPERTY  FROM  THE  COLLECTION  OF  MIRIAM  AND  IRA  D.  WALLACH
1886  -  1966
DU  PAYS  DE  THALÈS
bronze
length:  33cm.
13in.
Executed  in  1954  and  cast  in  bronze  in  an  edition  of  5  plus  1  artist's  proof.  The  present  work  was  cast  on  6th  April  1957.

Giuseppe Marchiori, Arp: Cinquante ans d'activité, Milan, 1964, illustration of another cast p. 104
Ionel Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 131, edition catalogued p. 73
Stefanie Poley, Hans Arp: Die Formensprache im plastischen Werk, Stuttgart, 1978, no. 32, illustration of another cast p. 27
Arie Hartog (ed.) & Kai Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures - A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 131, illustration of another cast and the present cast listed p. 115

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1958