JEAN (HANS) ARP, (1886-1966)

Petit figure appuyée dite 'L'Egyptienne'

Petit figure appuyée dite 'L'Egyptienne'
bronze with golden patina
25cm (9 13/16in) high.
Conceived in 1938, this bronze version, identified as 1/5, cast circa 1955-1959 by the Rudier Foundry in an edition of 6.

We are most grateful to the Fondation Arp, Clamart, for their assistance cataloguing this work.

Provenance
Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach Collection, Clamart.
Galerie D'Art Moderne, Basel (acquired from the above in 1974).
Galerie Academia, Salzburg.
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above on 21 June 1979).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, De verzameling van Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 27 June - 16 August 1970.

Literature
C. Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 57 (another cast illustrated p. 112).
Exh. cat., Schiedammers tonen hun kunstbezit, Schiedam, 1959, no. 189 (another cast illustrated).
'Have you the Courage to be Elegant?', in Home & Garden, November 1963 (another cast illustrated p. 218).
I. Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 57 (another cast illustrated p. 69).
S. Poley, Hans Arp, Die Formensprache im Plastichen Werk, Stuttgart, 1978, no. 150 (another cast illustrated p. 143).
C. Sylvia Weber, Hans Arp, Eine Übersicht, Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1912 bis 1965, exh. cat., Künzelsau, 1994 (another cast illustrated p. 83).
S. Paas, Hans Arp 1886-1966, Ankäufe des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, 1997, no. 3 (marble version illustrated p. 144).
Exh. cat., Hans Arp, Metamorphosen, 1915-1965, Werke aus der Sammlung der Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno, Appenzell, 2000, no. 41 (another cast illustrated p. 88).
Exh. cat., Jean Arp & Sophie Taeuber Arp, dada e oltre, Venice, 2006 (another cast illustrated p. 100).
Exh. cat., Biomorph! Hans Arp im Dialog mit aktuellen Künstlerpositionen, Rolandseck, 2011 (another cast illustrated p. 99).
Exh. cat., Collectie Piet en Ida Sanders, Leven met kunst, Schiedam, 2012 (another cast illustrated).
A. Hartog (ed.), Hans Arp, Skulpturen - Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 57 (another cast illustrated p. 86; incorrectly listed as sold at Camels Cohen, Paris, in 2003).
Exh. cat., Im Netzwerk der Moderne, Kirchner, Braque, Kandinsky, Klee, Richter, Bacon, Altenbourg und ihr Kritiker Will Grohmann, Munich, 2012, no. 6 (another cast illustrated p. 87).