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Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966)
Lot 102 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966)

Tête avec moustache hérissée

Closed7 February 2012

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GBP 325,250

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Jean (Hans) Arp (1886-1966)
Tête avec moustache hérissée
painted and cut-out board laid down on the artist's painted mount
The image: 10 x 12 7/8 in. (25.5 x 32.8 cm.);
The artist's painted mount: 15 3/8 x 18½ in. (39.8 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1926

Private collection, Milan, by circa 1960.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

'My mustache is well trained
well perfumed
and shiny and dew'
(J. Arp, The Quadrangular Pigeons - 1938, reproduced in J. Arp, Collected French Writings: poems, essays, memories, ed. M. Jean, trans. J. Neugroschel, London, 1974, p. 199).