Converso Modern: Celebrating 25 Years 
12 September 2019
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Converso Modern: Celebrating 25 Years 
Jan de Swart, The Ark - Image 1 of 5
Jan de Swart, The Ark - Image 2 of 5
Jan de Swart, The Ark - Image 3 of 5
Jan de Swart, The Ark - Image 4 of 5
Jan de Swart, The Ark - Image 5 of 5
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Jan de Swart 1908–1987

The Ark

1973
carved jelutong 67½ h × 63½ w × 24 d in (171 × 161 × 61 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
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exhibited: Jan De Swart: New Works, 1973-1976, 21 March - 26 April 1976, Palos Verdes Community Center Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA Collective Design, 4 - 8 May 2016, New York

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The present lot photographed in situ in Jan De Swart: New Works, 1973-1976 at the Palos Verdes Community Center Gallery, 1976

This collection of sculpture is a playful preoccupation with fantasies and allegories starting with Adam and Eve and following the course of the apple. Adam and Even in Eden. Salome and John the Baptist in Heaven. Cain and Abel in Hell. The empty Ark, an enigma in Limbo. Only Johnny Appleseed saw that the future lies in the seed, not in the apple. 

Excerpt from the Jan De Swart: New Works, 1973-1976 exhibition catalog

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