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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.289
People
Jean (Hans) Arp, French (Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany 1886 - 1966 Basel)
Title
Chessman
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Pièce d’échec
Original Language Title: Schachfigur
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1958, cast 1958-1963
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/379943

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Plaster
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
50 × 23 × 19 cm (19 11/16 × 9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stiftung Arp e.V., Berlin, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2023.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Trier 177

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Stiftung Arp e.V, Berlin/Rolandswerth
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.289
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arie Hartog and Veronika Wiegartz, ed., Arp and Company. The Cosmos of Forms and Studio Practice, exh. cat., Stiftung Arp e.V. and Gerhard Marcks-Stiftung (Bremen, 2022), pp. 109-110, ill. (color)

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