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Provenance

Dr. Nordman, Strasburg. (Galerie de Beaune, Paris); Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, by 1941;[1] (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 February 1950, no. 43). George Heard Hamilton, Williamstown, Massachusetts, by 1958;[2] purchased 11 March 1983 by NGA.

Exhibition History

1941
Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1941, no. 1
1967
Space and Dream, M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1967, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1983
Arp: The Dada Reliefs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, brochure, repro.
1986
Arp 1886-1966, traveling exhibition, 6 venues, 1986-1988, no. 90 (shown only at first three venues: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris).
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. 348, 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. 348.
2008
Art is Arp, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg; Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2008-2009, no. 145, repro.
2014
The Arp/Ernst Is Here! 100 Years of Friendship between Hans Arp and Max Ernst, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, 2014-2015.
2015
Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2015-2016, fig. 13.
2018
The Nature of Arp, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, 2018-2019, pl. 14.

Bibliography

1958
Soby, James Thrall, ed. Arp. New York, 1958:30-32, repro.
1967
Hamilton, George Heard. Painting and Sculpture in Europe. Baltimore, 1967:313, repro. 176.
1968
Rubin, William S. Dada and Surrealist Art. New York, 1968:256.
1981
Rau, Bernd. Jean Art: The Reliefs. Catalogue of Complete Works. New YYork, 1981: no. 39,
1989
Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 38, 39.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 23, repro.

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