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Jean (Hans) Arp

♂  French, born Germany (Alsace). 1886–1966

Jean (Hans) Arp has been in 81 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1934 and 1989.

81 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition

19 November 1934 to 20 January 1935

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art

2 March to 19 April 1936

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Gifts of the Advisory Committee

10 February to 7 March 1937

Joan Miró, Jean (Hans) Arp, Piet Mondrian and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.

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Twelve Modern Paintings

28 April to 30 May 1937

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jean (Hans) Arp and André Masson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection and on Loan

23 June to 4 November 1937

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

10 May to 30 September 1939

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Paintings and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

12 January to 3 March 1940

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

23 October 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition We Like Modern Art

27 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

6 May to 30 April 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Understanding Modern Art

6 May to 30 June 1941

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.

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New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

23 July to 29 September 1941

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Children's Festival of Modern Art

11 March to 10 May 1942

Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Jean (Hans) Arp and Odilon Redon, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Sculpture and Constructions

2–26 October 1942

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Drawings

16 February to 10 May 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting, Sculpture, Prints

24 May to 15 October 1944

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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What is Modern Painting?

6–25 March 1945

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture

20 June 1945 to 13 February 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Painting

19 February to 5 May 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Sculpture

19 February to 5 May 1946

Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Designed for Children

11 June to 6 October 1946

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

2 July 1946 to 12 September 1954

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

15 April to 1 June 1947

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New York Private Collections

20 July to 12 September 1948

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Collage

21 September to 5 December 1948

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition From Le Corbusier to Niemeyer: 1929–1949

15 February to 3 April 1949

Jean (Hans) Arp, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Master Prints from the Museum Collection

10 May to 10 July 1949

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Art in Your Life

5 October to 4 December 1949

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Modern Styles

11 July to 5 September 1950

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Relief

20 June to 15 July 1951

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alberto Giacometti and Jacques Lipchitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from 5 New York Private Collections

26 June to 9 September 1951

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculpture of the XXth Century

28 April to 7 September 1953

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Modern Masterprints of Europe

7 December 1954 to 1 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

23 April to 18 May 1958

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Jean Arp: A Retrospective

8 October to 30 November 1958

Jean (Hans) Arp, René d'Harnoncourt and James Thrall Soby were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works of Art: Given or Promised

8 October to 9 November 1958

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Fifty Modern Paintings and Sculpture Especially Donated for the Benefit of the 30th Anniversary Fund of The Museum of Modern Art

Started 20 April 1960

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 100 Drawings from the Museum Collection

11 October 1960 to 2 January 1961

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Art of Assemblage

4 October to 12 November 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

19 December 1961 to 25 February 1962

Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection

27 May 1964 to 23 March 1965

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

15 September to 24 October 1964

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculpture in Glass

16 November 1965 to 2 January 1966

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings from the Museum Collection

31 October 1966 to 8 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

17 January to 4 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage

27 March to 9 June 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

11 May to 19 October 1971

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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European Drawings from the Collection

27 June to 10 October 1972

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Marc Chagall and Paul Cézanne, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculpture from the Collection

22 September to 29 October 1972

Jean (Hans) Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Frederick Kiesler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

18 October 1972 to 7 January 1973

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 25 Recent Acquisitions

22 January to 18 March 1973

Jean (Hans) Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Arthur Drexler and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works on Paper

7 March to 4 June 1973

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Published in Germany, 1923

12 October 1973 to 2 February 1974

Paul Klee, Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Prints by Sculptors

21 May to 1 September 1975

Pablo Picasso, Jean (Hans) Arp, Alexander Calder and Alberto Giacometti, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Cubism and Its Affinities

9 February to 9 May 1976

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints: Acquisitions, 1973–1976

23 November 1976 to 20 February 1977

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II

17 December 1976 to 1 March 1977

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

20 September to 4 December 1977

Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Arp on Paper

15 December 1977 to 5 March 1978

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Four Recently Discovered Picabias and Other Modern Master Acquisitions

25 January to 22 April 1980

Jean (Hans) Arp, Roberto Matta, Georgia O'Keeffe and William S. Rubin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Words and Pictures

20 August to 6 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1–16 March 1982

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

3 March to 15 May 1983

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawing in Austria and Germany

26 May to 29 October 1985

Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Vasily Kandinsky, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980

2 October 1985 to 7 January 1986

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sculptors' Drawings

26 April to 2 September 1986

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

6 August to 8 December 1987

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition European Drawing Between the Wars

24 October 1987 to 1 March 1988

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

3 November 1988 to 28 February 1989

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Abstractions

17 November 1988 to 26 March 1989

Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

6 April to 8 August 1989

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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The Cubist Imprint

18 August to 7 November 1989

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.