Remerciement pour un coup de dé. 1957.
Oil on brown paper, laid on canvas.
Signed, typographically dated, titled and inscribed with the technique on a label on the reverse. 120 x 70 cm (47.2 x 27.5 in), the full sheet.
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• Large-format work on paper in which Hans Arp allows central elements of his work, such as curves and empty forms, to correlate.
• In the year of its creation, he made a wall relief for the UNESCO building in Paris that features similar formal elements.
• Significant provenance: formerly Galerie Pierre (Loeb), Paris, where the first Surrealist exhibition with works by, among others, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, Man Ray and Max Ernst took place in 1925.

PROVENANCE: Pierre (Loeb) Gallery, Paris (with a label on reverse, no. 114).
Erker-Galerie, St. Gallen.
Private collection, Switzerland.
From a Swiss collection.