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Sophie Taeuber-Arp / Tête Dada

Tête Dada

1920 · Painted wood

A stylised, painted wooden head (part portrait of the artist's husband Jean Arp, part abstract totem) reduced to a few sculptural planes.

MovementDDada
LocationParis, France
Genreabstract art

Why it matters

Sophie Taeuber-Arp turned a craft object, a lathe-turned, painted wooden head, into an avant-garde sculpture. It is one of her best-known contributions to Zurich Dada and early geometric abstraction.

Did you know?

  • It was made in 1920.
  • It is painted wood.
  • It has been in the Centre Pompidou since 2003.

Based on the Wikipedia article Tête Dada (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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