Jean Hans Arp ART FOR SALE

1886/87 Strasbourg, Alsace Lorraine, France - 1966 Basel, Switzerland. Known for: Abstract sculpture, installation, painting.

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ARP, HANS or JEAN. Jean Arp was a painter, a poet and sculptor. He was born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, which is in the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, near the boundary of Germany and France. His art retained a feeling for life on the border. He balanced a Gallic playfulness with a romantic mysticism that is essentially German. (He wrote in both languages). He longed to escape from the conventional borders of modern life, into a community of the spirit. He considered realistic art absurdly limited and egotistical. In 1904 he studied at the School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg; he took further training in Weimar. In 1908 he traveled to Paris to enroll in the Academie Julian. Arp produced paintings that were almost abstract in... Read full biography

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Type:Sculpture

Year:1959

Size:20.90" x 13.70"

Medium:Bronze

Signed:Monogram

Edition:1/5

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Signature: on the base Signed Monogram of the artist. The work is displayed in the artist's catalog. Provenance: Rudier foundry, Paris France. Private collection, Paris France. Private collection, Antwerp Belgium .

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