Jean (Hans) Arp, 1887-1966 Scroll down for information. Click here to return to the list. Soleil Recerclé No. 11 Around the Sun No. 11 Original woodcut in five colours. 1962-65. Signed in pencil. Numbered in pencil from the first edition of 60 signed impressions. Hand-printed at the studio of Fequet et Baudier, Paris 1965. Issued in the series: Soleil Recerclé, by Louis Broder, Paris 1966. (There was also an edition of the Soleil Recerclé woodcuts in album form, issued unsigned in an edition of 235 impressions). Ref: Arntz no 262 Excellent impression with very fresh unfaded colours. On cream textured handmade wove Velin d'Auvergne paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 20 x 17 1/4ins. Block: 10 5/8 x 8 3/8ins (270x215mm) This item is sold.    Click here to enquire about this item. A beautiful example of the combination of rhythmic anthropomorphic form, patterns of plane and surface and lyrical colour which make the woodcuts that Arp cut for the series ? Around the Sun - Soleil Recercle? some of the most purely beautiful works in his whole graphic oeuvre. Soleil Recercle was the most import series of prints in the later period of Arp?s graphic work. He began to think about the project for an album of 18 multiple-block colour woodcuts about 1960, and it became a major focus of his work for the following five years. He had first made prints in woodcut at the beginning of the 1940?s and it was the attraction of the combination of cut, almost sculpted, form and inherent sense of surface which led him back to the medium for the last great graphic project of his life. Arp had been one of the founders of the Dada movement, both at its inception in Zurich in 1916 and shortly afterwards in its more international form in Cologne in 1919. Dada was essentially an ?anti-art? movement. That is to say that it was a reaction to the overtly intellectual and emotional ideas which had inspired the Symbolist, Nabis and even Fauve movements. Dada was non-formal, non intellectual. It was the opposite of ?isms? and essentially about immediate and personal interpretation of images or objects. As Duchamp was to show it was not about what an object is but what it can suggest or inspire in the mind if taken out of context. Arp used shapes and textures which derive from the most basis elements of the natural world to communicate with our innermost feelings through their rhythm of shape, surface or colour. His prints are a central expression of these ideas.

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