Cote et valeur des tableaux, dessins, peintures de Sophie Taeuber-Arp

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Rating and value of the artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Taeuber-Arp is a well-known artist among contemporary art enthusiasts. Today, the prices of her works are rising under the auctioneer's hammer. Her oils on canvas are particularly prized, especially by French buyers, and the price at which they sell on the art market ranges from €350 to €340,000, a significant delta but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to the artist's works. In 2023, his oil on canvas Composition Dada, tête au plat was sold for €340,000, whereas it was estimated at between €300,000 and €400,000. Its value has risen sharply. 

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Artist's style and technique

Sophie Taueber-Arp's works are distinguished by their unique, personal style and bold use of color. The artist develops her own pictorial language, combining surrealist and abstract elements with organic and geometric forms, while retaining a certain suggestion of reality.

Uncommon but appreciated on the auction block, Tauber-Arp's works are skyrocketing in value. Some of her drawings sell for tens of thousands of euros.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, surrealism between rhythm and geometry

Sophie Henriette Gertrude Tauber, known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp, was born in Davos, Switzerland. She studied applied arts in Munich, St. Gallen and Hamburg, then took dance classes and became a choreographer alongside her career as an artist. In 1915, she met Jean Arp in Zurich, who was to become her husband, and took part with him in the emulation of the Dada movement.

She became a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, and danced in cabarets under a false name, her choreography being deemed strange and inconsistent with the school's principles. It was during these years that she created her series of sculpted heads, which were to become her most famous works.

She married Jean Arp in 1921, and in the process had a house and artist's studio built together in Clamart.

In 1926, they also tried their hand at decoration with Theo van Doesburg.

Her work evolved over the course of her career, and she gradually turned towards more abstraction, taking part in the abstraction-creation movement and founding the magazine Plastique.

In 1940, she had to leave Paris with her husband because of the Occupation, and took refuge in Grasse with other artists such as Sonia Delaunay.

She died in 1943, aged 53, at the home of her friend Max Bill.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp's imprint on her time

Sophie Taeuber-Arp made a lasting impression on the Swiss Surrealists and the Dada group. Her works are relatively well known and exhibited, and her works have acquired a certain notoriety on the art market over time.

Her signature

Not all of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here is a first example of her signature:  

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