Lot 362 R

Paper collage and ink on smooth ivory colored paper 24.9 x 16.4 cm, framed under glass. The verso in the lower left with the black estate stamp and the cipher "Arp SUCC. JEAN ARP“ as well as inscribed in pencil, probably by Marguerite Arp, "coeur à l'anse épineuse 25 x 16,4 cm" and "a été fondu en bronze" among other notes. The composition outlined linearly in pencil (very weakly, 20.4 x 15.1 cm) in the former mat opening. - With a small backed tear on the left margin. - Published in: Hans Arp, Worte mit und ohne Anker, Wiesbaden 1957, for the poem "Wir Bittsteller Aber", p. 67 et seq. with ill. p. 71.