Jean Arp
Three Buds1957

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Artist or Maker: Jean Arp
Germany, also active France and Switzerland, 1886-1966
Title: Three Buds
Date Made: 1957
Medium: Bronze with brown patina, Cast 2 of 3, Edition of 3
Dimensions: 42 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 9 in. (107.95 × 34.29 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Maria and Conrad Janis Living Trust
Accession Number: M.2024.55.7
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: In the early 1930s, Jean Arp began to produce freestanding sculptures with fluid, biomorphic forms suggestive of the growth and continuous transformation found in nature. These works, such as Three Buds, epitomize Arp’s notion of art as a “fruit which grows within man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in his mother’s womb.” First conceived as a unique sculpture—the original marble version from the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection is on view in an adjacent gallery—Three Buds was later cast in a small bronze edition. Sidney Janis, a major advocate for Arp’s work in the United States, exhibited both the original marble and the bronze casts at his New York gallery in the 1950s.
Frances Lazare

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

No image

Artist or Maker: Jean Arp
Germany, also active France and Switzerland, 1886-1966
Title: Three Buds
Date Made: 1957
Medium: Bronze with brown patina, Cast 2 of 3, Edition of 3
Dimensions: 42 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 9 in. (107.95 × 34.29 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Maria and Conrad Janis Living Trust
Accession Number: M.2024.55.7
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: In the early 1930s, Jean Arp began to produce freestanding sculptures with fluid, biomorphic forms suggestive of the growth and continuous transformation found in nature. These works, such as Three Buds, epitomize Arp’s notion of art as a “fruit which grows within man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in his mother’s womb.” First conceived as a unique sculpture—the original marble version from the Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection is on view in an adjacent gallery—Three Buds was later cast in a small bronze edition. Sidney Janis, a major advocate for Arp’s work in the United States, exhibited both the original marble and the bronze casts at his New York gallery in the 1950s.
Frances Lazare