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Photo credit: Jacob Snavely
Jean (Hans) Arp France & Germany, 1886-1966
La Poupée de Déméter, 1961 (1973)BronzeHeight: 41 cm (16⅛ in.)Inscribed 'Arp' and numbered '1/5' (on the underside)60976© 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, BonnFurther images
Conceived in 1961 and cast in bronze in an edition of 5. The present work is number 5 from the edition and was cast in 1973.
Conceived in 1961 and cast in bronze in an edition of 5. The present work is number 5 from the edition and was cast in 1973.
Provenance
Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, Clamart
Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, New York (acquired from the above in 1978)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (by bequest from the above in 1999; sale: Christie's New York, November 12, 2018, lot 353)
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Launceston, Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum; Perth, Western Australian Art Gallery; Austin, University Art Museum and Sarasota, Ringling Museum, Jean Arp: Sculpture, Reliefs, Works on Paper–An Exhibition Organized by Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, 1975-79, no. 28
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jean Arp, 1976, no. 23, illustrated
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, From Far and Wide: A Taste of the Lejwa Collection, 2005Literature
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 256, illustrated p. 79
R. Apter-Gabriel, ed., The Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa Collection in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2005, no. 117, illustrated in color pp. 72, 237
A. Hartog and K. Fischer, eds., Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 257a, illustrated p. 354, (another cast illustrated)
