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JEAN (HANS) ARP
(1887-1966)
S'accroupissant
marble
height: 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
length: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm)
depth: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
carved in 1960
Estimate: $350,000-450,000 <p>Provenance
Galerie Denise René, Paris
James Wise
Jacob S. Weintraub, New Art Center, New York
Hilda S. Kook, New York
Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg, Van Doren Fine Art, New York
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Private Collection, Japan
Private Collection, New York <p>Exhibited
Geneva, Galerie du Perron, Hommage à Jean-Hans Arp, June 15-September 1, 1962, no. 31(illustrated)
New York, New Art Center Gallery, Jean Arp: Sculpture, Relief, Drawing, November 3-November 30, 1962, no. 21 <p>Literature
Eduard Trier, Jean Arp Sculpture, His Last Ten Years, New York, 1968, p. 115, no. 232a (illustrated)
As S'accroupissant demonstrates, Arp's appreciation of nature was manifest in a highly original sculptural language. Rather than depict recognizable forms from nature in a conventional, imitative fashion, the artist used abstract shapes and rhythms to make oblique allusions to the human figure. In both his early, wooden wall reliefs and his later sculpture in the round, Arp created voluptuous, biomorphic forms that consistently eluded precise representation. They instead captured the fundamental sensuality of the human figure. Arp's ability to convey both the sublime beauty of the human body as well as other organic forms reached a peak in his late work, when greater financial success allowed the artist to work with more precious materials. Sculpted in pristine white marble (and later cast into a bronze edition of five), S'accroupissant possesses an exceedingly smooth surface that heightens the seamless fluidity of its contours.
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