1991.2.A: Shell
SculptureThe marble sculpture show a rounded form with a hollowed-out center. The marble is dark with white areas across the surface. The base is thick and gently rounded. The marble forms an arch on one side as part of the hollowed-out center, the figure then rises up and over the hollow. The marble is highly polished. It sits on a wooden base which is square on the bottom, with a bullet-shaped center topped by another square.
Identification and Creation
- 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
- Location
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Level 1, Room 1310, Modern and Contemporary Art, Surrealism
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Fossiliferous marble
- Dimensions
- 25.8 x 24 x 20 cm (10 3/16 x 9 7/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1949, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.
Acquisition and Rights
- 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
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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
- 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
Verification Level
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