Sale: 611 / Day Sale, Dec. 05. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000619
126000619
Hans (Jean) Arp
Selon les lois du hasard, 1951.
Wooden relief
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000619
Hans (Jean) Arp
Selon les lois du hasard, 1951.
Wooden relief
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Hans (Jean) Arp
1886 - 1966
Selon les lois du hasard. 1951.
Wooden relief.
Signed and dated in typography on a label on the reverse, as well as titled, numbered, and inscribed with the technique. One of 3 copies. 29.5 x 44.4 x 3.2 cm (11.6 x 17.4 x 1.2 in).
The relief is related to the woodcut “Placé selon les lois du hasard,” in: Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, Curt Valentin, New York 1951/52, no. 3 (Arntz 150). [KA].
• A compelling example of Hans Arp’s innovative exploration of the relief.
• Arp shapes biomorphic, free-floating spheres out of the wood.
• As early as 1917, wood reliefs occupied a key position in Arp’s artistic oeuvre.
• In 1958, Arp was among the few artists to have a retrospective dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art in New York during his lifetime.
• Hans Arp is widely regarded as a key figure of the European avant-garde.
PROVENANCE: Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet Collection, Paris (with a label on the reverse).
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet Collection, Paris (inherited from the above)
Private collection, Paris.
Private collection (inherited from the above)
Swiss collection (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Bernd Rau, Hans Arp. Die Reliefs, Œuvre Catalog, Stuttgart 1981, CR no. 402a (illustrated in black and white, different copy).
1886 - 1966
Selon les lois du hasard. 1951.
Wooden relief.
Signed and dated in typography on a label on the reverse, as well as titled, numbered, and inscribed with the technique. One of 3 copies. 29.5 x 44.4 x 3.2 cm (11.6 x 17.4 x 1.2 in).
The relief is related to the woodcut “Placé selon les lois du hasard,” in: Jean Arp, Dreams and Projects, Curt Valentin, New York 1951/52, no. 3 (Arntz 150). [KA].
• A compelling example of Hans Arp’s innovative exploration of the relief.
• Arp shapes biomorphic, free-floating spheres out of the wood.
• As early as 1917, wood reliefs occupied a key position in Arp’s artistic oeuvre.
• In 1958, Arp was among the few artists to have a retrospective dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art in New York during his lifetime.
• Hans Arp is widely regarded as a key figure of the European avant-garde.
PROVENANCE: Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet Collection, Paris (with a label on the reverse).
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet Collection, Paris (inherited from the above)
Private collection, Paris.
Private collection (inherited from the above)
Swiss collection (acquired from the above).
LITERATURE: Bernd Rau, Hans Arp. Die Reliefs, Œuvre Catalog, Stuttgart 1981, CR no. 402a (illustrated in black and white, different copy).
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