Aubette
1959
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View on museum website →Medium
silkscreen in blue, yellow, and gray
Dimensions
image: 26 x 52.5 cm (10 1/4 x 20 11/16 in.) sheet: 50 x 66.7 cm (19 11/16 x 26 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Cutler
Accession Number
1983.69.1
About the Artist
Jean (Hans) Arp
Hans Arp, born Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strasbourg—then part of the German Empire but now in France—grew up in a culturally contested border region that mirrored his dual German-French heritage, with a French mother and German father. He began his artistic training at the École des Arts et Métiers in Strasbourg, leaving in 1904, before studying at the Weimarer Kunstschule i...