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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2018 | TORSE | 3 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
97.1 cm (38.23 in)
Bronze
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered 3/3 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondr Paris (on the interior)
Roslyn Rubin, New York (and sold by the estate: Christie's, New York, May 15, 1986, lot 342)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Modern Plastic Art, Zurich, 1937, illustration of another cast p. 97 (dated 1933)
Michel Seuphor, Arp, Paris, 1957, illustration of the marble p. 27
Carola Giedion-Welcker, Hans Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 8, illustration of the marble pp. 86 & 87
Ernst Scheidegger,ed., Zweiklang. Sophie Taeuber-Arp/Hans Arp, Zurich, 1960, illustration of another cast in the artist's studio p. 66
Michel Sephor, Petite encyclopedie de l’art, New York, 1964, no. 6, illustration of the marble n.p.
Herbert Read, Arp, London, 1968, no. 90, illustration of another cast p. 86 (with incorrect measurements)
Ionel Jianou, Jean Arp, Paris, 1973, no. 8, catalogued p. 66
Stefanie Poley, Hans Arp. Die Formensprache im plastischen Werk, Stuttgart, 1978, illustration of the plaster p. 77
Margherita Andreotti, The Early Sculpture of Jean Arp, London, 1989, no. 21, illustration of another cast pp. 184-85
Arie Hartog & Kai Fischer, Hans Arp. Sculptures. A Critical Survey, Ostfildern, 2012, no. 8, illustration of the marble pp. 67 & 241
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered 3/3 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondr Paris (on the interior)
Bronze
Height (including base): 38 1/4 in.
97.1 cm
Conceived in 1931; this example cast during the artist's lifetime, between 1958 and 1960, by Susse Fondeur, Paris.
