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Lot 7013 - ibid153 Prints and Multiples 20th/21st century - online only - Wednesday, 02. July 2025, 11.00 AM

HANS (JEAN) ARP

(Strasbourg 1886–1966 Basel)
Elemente. 1950.
Portfolio with 10 woodcuts on 6 double sheets as well as 2 printed poems, a cover sheet and the imprint. 2nd 'Stubendruck' (private printing), outside the edition of 170. Signed in pencil on the first double sheet centre right: ARP. Various image sizes on DUCA DI PARMA wove paper and C.M. FABRIANO (with the watermarks) 29.5 ×41.5 cm. Printed and trimmed in the Karl Schmid workshop. Typography by Alfred Willimann.
In the original cardboard folder and the original cardboard slipcase.

Catalogue raisonné:
Arntz, Nr. 283-292.

The draft versions of this woodcut date to the 1920s.

Conditionreport:
Overall in good condition. Wove paper hardly visibly browned, minimally browned in parts. Sheet edges and corners hardly visibly bumped. <br>Wove paper browned on the reverse along the area of the images, as well as equally browned partly on the opposite side in the area of the image. <br>Cardboard folder with some minimal rubbing and minimal surface soiling. Cardboard sleeve rubbed and minimally soiled along the edges.

CHF 800 / 1 200 | (€ 820 / 1 240)

Sold for CHF 1 875 (including buyer's premium)