Relief . Wood, painted. Unique object. 46.5 x 53.5 cm. . [KA].
More works from the Max Niedermayer Collection, Limes-Verlag Wiesbaden, will be offered in the Evening Sale on June 6 and in the Day Sale on June 7, as well as in other auctions throughout the year.
- Magnificent composition in Hans Arp's unmistakable biomorphic style. - Wood reliefs already occupied a key position in Arp's artistic oeuvre in 1917. - In the year this work was created, Arp and his wife acquired the Ronco dei Fiori estate in Locarno-Solduno, Switzerland, where the artist arrived at a new color palette. - Arp's reliefs were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as early as 1936, followed by a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1958 and a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1969, three years after his death.
We are grateful to the Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Foundation for their kind support.
LITERATURE: Bernd Rau, Hans Arp. Die Reliefs, oeuvre catalog, Stuttgart 1981, no. A27 (illustrated).

Dr. Max Niedermayer Collection (1905-1968), Wiesbaden. Dr. Max Niedermayer Estate, Wiesbaden. Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate (acquired from the above in 1979). In family ownership ever since

In good condition. Mounted on a wooden panel. The white areas have isolated, tiny flakes of paint and studio marks, as well as slight unevenness of unknown origin. The upper right part of the yellow figure has been professionally retouched, barely noticeable, as well as with isolated, tiny cracks in the paint and with small soiled spots. The condition report was compiled in daylight with a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.