Attributed to JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966) Title: Untitled (Composition), Medium: Mixed Media on Cardboard, Size: 18.50" H x 12.50" W (in), Date: ca. 1960. This lot is accompanied by a Certificate of Attribution, is not a reproduction, it is a unique piece. We recommend that the buyer do their research before bidding on the lot. It comes from a Private Collection. The sale of this lot is final. Was a German-French artist and poet known as a founding member of the Dada movement in Zurich. His playful abstractions of natural objects were motivated by his interest in harnessing unconscious thought through automatic drawings and parodying established ideas about art-making. A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone, he remarked, but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses. Born on September 16, 1886 in Strasbourg, Germany, his mother was French and his father German thus he used the first name Jean in French-speaking countries and Hans in German-speaking countries. He went on to study with Wassily Kandinsky, and other members of the Der Blaue Reiter group in Munich during the early 1910s. Arp was the subject of a major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1958, and today his work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He died on June 7, 1966 in Basel, Switzerland.

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