Lot 270
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270
Hans (Jean) Arp
Initiale pour un éditeur, 1960.
Collage of color cardboard
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 43,052 (incl. surcharge)
Initiale pour un éditeur. 1960.
Collage of color cardboard.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the technique on a label on the reverse. Unique object. 40 x 36 cm (15.7 x 14.1 in). [KA].
More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag Wiesbaden, will be offered in the Evening Sale on June 6 and in the Day Sale on June 7, as well as in other auctions throughout the year.
• Hans Arp's collages are poetic manifestations of free association.
• On the cover of the book 'Briefe an einen Verleger' (Letters to a Publisher, 1965), published in honor of Limes publisher Max Niedermayer.
• At times organic, at times constructive, Arp's formal language reflects the inexhaustible diversity of natural structures.
• Outstanding provenance: the artist gave the collage to Max Niedermayer on his 60th birthday in 1965.
• Collages by Hans Arp can be found in the collections of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
We are grateful to the Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Foundation for their kind support.
PROVENANCE: Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection, Wiesbaden (gifted directly by the artist in 1965 on the occasion of his 60th birthday).
Dr. Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden (since 1968, inherited from the above).
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (since 1979, acquired from the above).
In family ownership ever since.
LITERATURE: Marguerite Valerie Schlüter, Briefe an einen Verleger. Max Niedermayer zum 60. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden 1965 (illustrated on the cover).
"Collage is poetry with graphic means."
(Hans Arp, quoted from: arpmuseum.org, 2024)
Collage of color cardboard.
Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the technique on a label on the reverse. Unique object. 40 x 36 cm (15.7 x 14.1 in). [KA].
More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag Wiesbaden, will be offered in the Evening Sale on June 6 and in the Day Sale on June 7, as well as in other auctions throughout the year.
• Hans Arp's collages are poetic manifestations of free association.
• On the cover of the book 'Briefe an einen Verleger' (Letters to a Publisher, 1965), published in honor of Limes publisher Max Niedermayer.
• At times organic, at times constructive, Arp's formal language reflects the inexhaustible diversity of natural structures.
• Outstanding provenance: the artist gave the collage to Max Niedermayer on his 60th birthday in 1965.
• Collages by Hans Arp can be found in the collections of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
We are grateful to the Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Foundation for their kind support.
PROVENANCE: Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection, Wiesbaden (gifted directly by the artist in 1965 on the occasion of his 60th birthday).
Dr. Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden (since 1968, inherited from the above).
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (since 1979, acquired from the above).
In family ownership ever since.
LITERATURE: Marguerite Valerie Schlüter, Briefe an einen Verleger. Max Niedermayer zum 60. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden 1965 (illustrated on the cover).
"Collage is poetry with graphic means."
(Hans Arp, quoted from: arpmuseum.org, 2024)
270
Hans (Jean) Arp
Initiale pour un éditeur, 1960.
Collage of color cardboard
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 43,052 (incl. surcharge)
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