Jean Arp

French | 1887 - 1966

Jean Arp was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1887. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum Ludwig, Cologne have featured Jean Arp's work in the past.Jean Arp's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 45 USD to 5,825,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,825,000 USD for Déméter, sold at Christie's New York in 2018. Jean Arp has been featured in articles for Studio International, e-flux and The National. The most recent article is When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World written for Hyperallergic in April 2024. The artist died in 1966.

Artist's alternative names: Hans Arp, Hans Jean Arp

Château des oiseaux, 1963

white marble

Height: 19 1/2 in. Width: 16 3/4 49.6 cm. 42.8 cm.

Déméter, 1961

white marble

Height: 39 3/8 in. (100 cm.)

Colonne de rêve, 1958

top: limestone; base: polished bronze

Height: 43 3/8 in. (110.1 cm.)

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At Auction

Upcoming Lots

Cravate à la tension silencieuse

By Jean Arp

Christie's New York

Idole des lapins

By Jean Arp

Christie's New York

Grand bâtard

By Jean Arp

Christie's New York

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Recent Auction Results

Composition mit fünf Formen (Composition with Five Shapes), 1964

By Jean Arp

+42%

above mid-estimate

Venduehuis der Notarissen

Composition dans un cercle n°6

By Jean Arp

+1%

above mid-estimate

Sotheby's Paris

Gris-Noir (Gray and Black), 1966

By Jean Arp

+180%

above mid-estimate

Venduehuis der Notarissen

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Current Exhibitions

Sculpture from Louisiana's Collection

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Humlebæk | Denmark

Dec 19,2023 - May 19,2024

Stuttgart sichten

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Stuttgart | Germany

Apr 05,2024 - Jun 16,2024

Future Minded: New Works in the Collection

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge | Massachusetts | USA

Mar 01,2024 - Jul 21,2024

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Articles

How Postwar Paris Changed the Expat Artists

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Coverage

“ ..Arp’s sculptures, begun in the early 1930s, often have no use for a pedestal, can be turned in different orientations, and seem to pulse with incipient life... ”
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Nasher Sculpture Center

“ ..Arp described its biomorphic shapes as primal forms inspired by nature, a connection made clear in the title of the work, which evokes a grouping of stars in the night sky... ”
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Harvard Art Museums

“ ..Now, for the first time since Jean Arp’s death in 1966, there is a major retrospective of his work... ”
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Kroller-Muller Museum

“ ..Constellations II inaugurated a new chapter in Arp’s postwar practice... ”
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Harvard Art Museums

“ ..Arp’s experimental approach to creation, radical rethinking of traditional art forms, and collaborative proclivities resonate with the wide-ranging character of art today... ”
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection