Bird-Man Artist: Jean (Hans) Arp (French, born Germany, 1886–1966)

ca. 1920

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Painted wood

Dimensions

11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in. (29 × 20.9 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Katherine S. Dreier to the Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1948.208

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Provenance: The artist; lent to Katherine S. Dreier (1877–1952), New York, 1926; lent to the Société Anonyme, New York, 1926; sold by the artist to Dreier, New York, 1927; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Ketevan Kintsurashvili, David Kakabadzé: Georgian Modern Artist and Inventor (New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013), 139
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 188, ill
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 69-70, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
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