Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Property from an Important Private Swiss Collection
Jean Arp
Bourgeon d'éclair, 1968
Lot Closed
December 8, 02:06 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Jean Arp
1886 - 1966
Bourgeon d'éclair, 1968
Polished bronze
Stamped with the artist's monogram and numbered II/V on the inside of the base;
stamped with the foundry mark Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris on the reverse of the base
Height: 58 cm
Conceived in 1965 and cast in 1968 in a numbered edition of five.
This work is registered in the archive of the Fondation Taeuber-Arp.
Edouard Loeb, Paris, 8 March 1968
Christie's London, 29 November 1995, lot 246
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above)
Francois Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture 1957-1966, London, 1968, no. 347, p. 390 (marble version illustrated)
Jean Arp conceived the present model of Bourgeon d’éclair one year before his death in 1966. As a late and mature work, this sculpture is part of his famous biomorphic series executed in materials such as polished bronze, marble and granite. Due to the purity of shape and immaculate polished surface, these sculptures suggest an impression of a soft and ever-evolving movement, characteristic of Biomorphism also known as “Non Cubist Abstraction”. This polished bronze Bourgeon d’éclair is the second from a small edition of five, often considered as the culmination of Jean Arp's later works.