Hans (Jean) Arp *

(Strasbourg 1886–1966 Basel)
S'élevant (Straightening up), 1962, bronze, 28.5 x 10 x 11.5 cm; with base: 44.2 x 15 x 15 cm
This is number four from an edition of six.

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity signed by the artist

Provenance:
Galleria Vismara Arte Contemporanea, Milan
European Private Collection

Literature:
E. Trier, M. Arp Hagenbach, F. Arp, Jean Arp, Sculpture: His Last Ten Years, New York 1968, pp. 118–119, no. 274 with ill. (another cast ill.)
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, p. 80, no. 274 (marble version p. 38)
A. Hartog, Hans Arp, Skulpturen-Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 274
A. Hartog, K. Fischer, Hans Arp: Sculptures, A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, pp. 360–361, no. 274 (marble version p. 360)
A. Hartog, Veronika Wiegartz, Arp and Company: The Cosmos of Forms and Studio, Practice Gerhard-Marcks-Stift, 2022, no. T274 (plaster version)

"The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow. Art should lose itself in nature. It should even be confounded with nature. Only this must not be achieved by imitation, but by the opposite of naturalistic copying, that is duplication. Thus art divest itself more and more of self-addiction, of virtuosity, of ridiculousness."

Jean Hans Arp