Mirr
1936/1960
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View on museum website →Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall without base: 17.46 × 21.91 × 15.24 cm (6 7/8 × 8 5/8 × 6 in.) base (height x diameter at top x diameter at bottom): 45.72 × 18.42 × 19.05 cm (18 × 7 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.) base (largest circumference): 73.66 cm (29 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine
Accession Number
1977.75.6
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...