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Jean
Arp
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Title:
Composition
Medium: Lithograph
Image Size: 12 ¼" x 17" (31.1 x 43.2
cm)
Framed Size: 36" x 33" (92 x 84 cm)
Edition: Numbered in pencil 93/100
Signed:
Arp, lower left
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Arp,
Jean (1887-1966)
Arp, Jean or
Hans, French artist, active in several fields but principally
famous as one of the greatest of abstract sculptors. In
1915, in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber,
he experimented with collages and cut-paper reliefs, as
in Square arranged according to the laws of chance (1916-17,
New York, MOMA). He was involved in 1916 in the formation
of the original Dada group in Zurich, and turned in the
following year from geometric abstract painting to a more
formal language which he used in drawings, woodcuts and
wooden relief constructions painted in bright colours,
such as Navel, shirt and head (1926, Basel, Kunstmuseum).
In 1920 he settled in Paris, where he was associated both
with Surrealism and with the Abstraction-Creation group.
He began to make sculptures in 1930, extending the possibilities
of Brancusi's reductive simplifications to create sensual
forms, ambiguously evoking human anatomy, stones and fruit,
which for him distilled the organic essence of life (Pagoda
fruit, 1934, London, Tate).
Sir
David Piper, The Random House Dictionary of Art and
Artists, Random House, NY, 1984.
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