Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from a Private New York Collection
Jean Arp
Étoile
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private New York Collection
Jean Arp
1886 - 1966
Étoile
bronze with marble base
height: 14¼ in.
36.2 cm.
Conceived in 1939 and cast in 1948 by Alexis Rudier Foundry, Paris, this work is number 1 from an edition of 5.
Curt Valentin, New York (acquired from the artist)
Myron O’Higgins-Ybarra, Chicago (acquired from the estate of the above by November 1955)
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, St. Louis (acquired from the above on 3 February 1964)
Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 380 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Myron O’Higgins-Ybarra, Chicago (acquired from the estate of the above by November 1955)
B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, St. Louis (acquired from the above on 3 February 1964)
Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 2006, lot 380 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Carola Griedion-Welcker, Hans Arp, Stuttgart 1957, p. 94, no. 61, illustration of another cast
Maike Steinkamp and Loretta Würtenberger, eds., Hans Arp and the United States, Berlin 2016, fig. 2, pp. 127-28, illustration of another cast in color
Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern 2012, no. 61. p. 88, illustration of another cast (with incorrect casting date)
Maike Steinkamp and Loretta Würtenberger, eds., Hans Arp and the United States, Berlin 2016, fig. 2, pp. 127-28, illustration of another cast in color
Arie Hartog and Kai Fischer, Hans Arp Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern 2012, no. 61. p. 88, illustration of another cast (with incorrect casting date)
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Jean Arp, 1949, no. 12