- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1991.2.A
- People
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Jean (Hans) Arp, French (Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany 1886 - 1966 Basel)
- Title
- Shell
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: La Coquille
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- 1938
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226296
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1310, Modern and Contemporary Art, Surrealism
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Fossiliferous marble
- Dimensions
- 25.8 x 24 x 20 cm (10 3/16 x 9 7/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Provenance
- [Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1949, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.2.A
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Carola Giedion-Welker, Jean Arp, ed. Milton S. Fox, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, c. 1957)
Perry T. Rathbone, European Masters of Our Time, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1957), p. 12, fig. 112, ill. (b/w)
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 2, fig. 34, pp. 75-76, 306, 374
- Exhibition History
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A Century of Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 03/30/1950 - 05/18/1950
[Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956
European Masters of Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/10/1957 - 11/17/1957
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013
32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/14/2015 - 01/01/2050
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