(Women) Artists
(Women) Artists
Jean (Hans) Arp (After Sophie Taeuber-Arp)
Composition verticale-horizontale
Lot Closed
March 16, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
140,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jean (Hans) Arp (After Sophie Taeuber-Arp)
1886-1966 / 1889-1943
Composition verticale-horizontale
stamped S H Taeuber-Arp and signed Arp on a label on the reverse
oil on wood relief mounted on pavatex
65 by 75 cm. 25⅝ by 29½ in.
Framed: 70 by 80 cm. 27½ by 31½ in.
Conceived in 1927-28 by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and executed in relief by Jean Arp between 1943 and 1956.
Private Collection, Caracas (acquired directly from the artist circa 1956)
BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern; Rolandseck, Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Sophie Taeuber - Hans Arp: Künstlerpaare - Künstlerfreunde, 1988-89, no. 1, p. 185, illustrated (titled Composition and as dating from 1963)