ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)

Los 208
19.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
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ID 1574343
Los 208 | ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
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$ 500 000 – 800 000
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Flat Torso
signed 'Archipenko' (on the lower edge of the base)
white marble
Height (including base): 18 ¾ in. (47.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1914 and carved in Berlin circa 1920




Provenance

E.L.T. Mesens, London.
Georges Vriamont, Antwerp (acquired from the above, April 1930, until at least April 1955).
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1974.



Literature

I. Goll, Archipenko, New York, 1920, p. 2 (another marble version illustrated).
I. Goll, T. Däubler and B. Cendrars, Archipenko-Album, Potsdam, 1921 (another marble version illustrated, fig. 1).
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, p. 13 (another marble version illustrated, pl. 20).
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960 (bronze version illustrated, pls. 205-206).
A.E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, p. 112 (bronze version illustrated, fig. 132).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Boulder, 1974, p. 34 (bronze version illustrated).
K.J. Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1921, Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, New York, 1977, p. 33, no. S49 (bronze version illustrated).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Danville, 1985, p. 58, no. 26 (bronze version illustrated, pp. 74-75).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Daytona Beach, 1989, p. 87, nos. 2 and 4.
The Alexander Archipenko Foundation, The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné (www.archipenkocr.org), no. 6063 (illustrated in color; accessed March 2026).



Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'art vivant en Europe, April-May 1931, no. 109.



Further details

The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
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