Lot 14: * JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966) Ganymède polished bronze 21 x 31.7 x 25.5cm (

* JEAN (HANS) ARP (1886-1966) Ganymède polished bronze 21 x 31.7 x 25.5cm (8 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 10 1/16in). Conceived in 1954 and cast in an edition of 5 between 1957 and 1959 by Susse Fondeur. The present work is the first cast. Ganymède is a variant of the work Ecaille, conceived in 1938.

Provenance Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Walter & Molly Bareiss Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 1958); their sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 336 (sold for Private collection, Japan (acquired at the above sale). Exhibited New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Arp, 1958, no. 102. Literature C. Giedion-Welcker, Jean Arp, Stuttgart, 1957, no. 132 (terracotta version listed and titled ‘Ganymed’). Exh. cat., Jean Arp (1886 - 1966), Madrid, 1985, no. 18 (another cast illustrated p. 111). PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION ‘[Ganymedes] was the loveliest born of the race of mortals, and therefore the gods caught him away to themselves, to be Zeus’ wine-pourer, for the sake of his beauty, so he might be among the immortals.’ - Homer, The Iliad, Book XX, lines 233-235

This work was presented to the Fondation Arp, Clamart, and is registered in their archives.