Oriforme
model 1962, fabricated 1977
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View on museum website →Medium
stainless steel
Dimensions
overall: 227.9 x 214.6 x 60 cm (89 3/4 x 84 1/2 x 23 5/8 in.) gross weight: 1400 lb. (635.036 kg)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
To the American People in Gratitude - Leon Chalette, Arthur Lejwa and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa
Accession Number
1978.22.1
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...