The David M. Solinger Collection Evening Auction

The David M. Solinger Collection Evening Auction

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Jean Arp

Fruit méchant

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:57 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean Arp

1886 - 1966


Fruit méchant

pink limestone

height: 19 ¼ in. 49 cm.

Executed in 1936; this work is unique. 


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讓・阿爾普

1886 - 1966年

《淘氣的水果》


粉紅石灰石

高︰19 ¼ 英寸;49公分

David Thompson, Pittsburgh (until at least 1960)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1963 by the present owner
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, New York, 1967, no. 27, p. 109 (titled Angry Fruit)
Ionel Jianu, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 27, p. 67
Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein and traveling, Arp 1886-1966, 1986-88, no. 154, p. 160, illustrated
Margherita Andreotti, The Early Sculpture of Jean Arp, Ann Arbor, 1989, pp. 284-85, no. 59, fig. 113, n.p., illustrated (titled Naughty Fruit)
Kai Fischer and Arie Hertog, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures—A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 27, p. 75, illustrated