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Jean Arp

The Forest, 1916

East Building, Upper Level - Gallery 415B

Medium

painted wood

Dimensions

overall: 32.7 x 19.7 x 7.6 cm (12 7/8 x 7 3/4 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1977.20.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Arp (artist) French, born Germany (Alsace), 1886 - 1966

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Provenance

Paul Eluard [1895-1952], Paris;[1] purchased 1938 by Sir Roland A. Penrose [1900-1984], London;[2] purchased 3 May 1977 through (E.V. Thaw and Co., New York) by NGA.[3]

[1] Eluard probably acquired the relief from the artist, per Trinkett Clark in letters of 29 Janury 1979, in NGA curatorial files.

[2] Letter of 18 July 1978 from Sir Roland Penrose, in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Rosamond Bernier of New York, a friend of Sir Roland Penrose, was also involved in the sale to the NGA, per her letter of 3 December 1978, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Penrose, Roland, Sir
Thaw & Co., Inc., E.V.
Éluard, Paul

Exhibition History

1936: The International Surrealist Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, 1936, no. 12.

1937: Surrealist Exhibition, University Arts Society, Cambridge, 1937, no. 3.

1939: Abstract and Concrete Art, Guggenheim Jeune, London, 1939, no. 2.

1958: Arp, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, no. 34, repro.

1969: Jean Arp (1886-1966): A Retrospective Exhibition, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Fine Art, Dallas; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1968-1969, no. 21, repro.

1971: Surréalisme, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, 1971, no. 1.

1973: Pioneers of Modern Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, 1973, no. 56, repro.

1978: Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 69, repro.

1978: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Hayward Gallery, London, 1978, no. 3.9.

1979: The Planar Dimension: Europe 1912-1932, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1979, no. 40, repro.

1979: The Spirit of Surrealism, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979, no. 6, repro.

1983: Arp: The Dada Reliefs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, brochure, repro.

1987: Arp 1886-1966, traveling exh., 6 venues, 1986-1988, no. 48, repro. (shown only at last three venues: Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

1993: Surrealism: Revolution by Night, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1993, no. 2, repro., as Forest: Earthly Shapes.

1994: The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Hayward Gallery, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1994-1995, no. 182, repro. (shown only in Edinburgh and London).

2001: The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 2001, no. 37, repro.

2005: Dada, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005-2006, no. 37, repro.

2005: Dada, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005 - 2006, no. 37.

2006: Merz-gebiete. Kurt Schwitters und seine Freunde [Merz areas. Kurt Schwitters and His Friends], Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2006-2007, no. 6, repro.

2008: Art is Arp, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2008-2009, no. 75, repro.

2015: Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2015-2016, fig. 10.

2018: The Nature of Arp, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 22, repro.

2013: Carmean, Jr., E.A. "Seeing the Tree for the Forest." Art News (February 2013): 54-56, repro.