Helmet-Head I | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2023.290
People: Jean (Hans) Arp, French (Strasbourg, Alsace, Germany 1886 - 1966 Basel)
Title: Helmet-Head I
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Tête-heaume I
Original Language Title: Helm-Kopf I
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture
Date: 1959, cast 1959-1982
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/379944

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Plaster
Technique: Cast
Dimensions: 54 × 36 × 20 cm (21 1/4 × 14 3/16 × 7 7/8 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 202a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Stiftung Arp e.V, Berlin/Rolandswerth
Accession Year: 2023
Object Number: 2023.290
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. 113-114, ill. (color)

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2023.290: Helmet-Head I