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Sail-Maker VI (Voilier VI), from’Mirror of the Poet (Miroir du poète)’

Hans (Jean) Arp

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Sail-Maker VI (Voilier VI), from’Mirror of the Poet (Miroir du poète)’
1957
Hans (Jean) Arp
color woodcut on paper
14 15/16 x 11 in. (37.94 x 27.94 cm);19 x 14 in. (48.26 x 35.56 cm);5 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (13.65 x 11.75 cm)
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1983/1.330

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Alsatian-born Arp was one of the founding members of the Dada group. Known primarily as a sculptor, Arp also made numerous woodcuts which bear a close affinity to his low-relief sculptural works. The delicate interplay of shapes, values, and colors in this print are typical of his graphic works; here the juxtapositons create a vibrant composition. The black and red do not merely sit upon a gray background; the gray vies with the other two colors and becomes a discrete shape of its own. The following year this same image was produced as a tapestry by the Atelier Tabard at Aubusson, entitled Composition in Grey, Black and Red.
Label copy from exhibition "Dreamscapes: The Surrealist Impulse," August 22 - October 25, 1998

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