About the Artwork
Between Lily and Elephant Tusk
1958
Jean Arp
1887-1966
French
Unknown
Plaster
Overall: 36 × 18 × 19 1/4 inches (91.4 × 45.7 × 48.9 cm)
Sculpture
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Madame Jean Arp
74.125
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Provenance
the artist, Jean Arp
his widow, Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach (Clamart, France)
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Neff, J. "Curatorial Reports: Department of Modern Art." Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 2 (1975): p. 60; p. 63; front cover (ill.).
Landay, J. "Between Art and Nature: The Metamorphic Sculpture of Jean Arp." Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 4 (1984): pp. 15, 17-21; p. 16, fig. 2 (ill.).
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Jean Arp, Between Lily and Elephant Tusk, 1958, plaster. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Madame Jean Arp, 74.125.
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