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Jean Arp
Three Buds1957

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Abstract marble sculpture with smooth, organic form tapering to a pointed tip, white surface with gray veining, photographed against a dark background
White marble sculpture with a smooth, highly polished surface and abstract biomorphic form, featuring gentle curves and subtle gray veining, mounted on a wooden pedestal.
Artist or Maker
Jean Arp
Germany, also active France and Switzerland, 1886-1966
Title
Three Buds
Date Made
1957
Medium
White marble
Dimensions
20 × 13 × 11 in. (50.8 × 33.02 × 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.9
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, sold February 24, 1959 to]; Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr. (sale, New York, Sotheby's, 15 Nov 1989, Lot 2, sold to); [Galerie Beyeler, Basel, sold 1994 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles, partial, fractional and promised gift 2005 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.