May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 450

Unsold
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
JEAN ARP
Crucifixion.

Drypoint on cream wove paper, 1914. 117x93 mm; 4 3/4x3 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection Lucien and Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early work.

Exhibited "Jean Arp," Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February-April 1962, catalogue number 19; and "Jean Arp," The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, December 1962, catalogue number 142.

We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Arntz 367.