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ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)

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$ 1 500 000
Auction dateClassic
16.05.2024 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1209443
Lot 49 | ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Archipenko, A.
Woman Combing Her Hair
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed ‘Archipenko 1915 Paris 5’ (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 70 ½ in. (178.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1915; this bronze version cast in 1965




Provenance

Frances Archipenko Gray, Woodstock, New York (wife of the artist, 1965).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984.



Literature

A.C. Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York, 1952, pp. 27 and 138 (smaller version illustrated, p. 138).
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 145 (another cast illustrated).
J. Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century, New York, 1967, p. 150 (smaller version illustrated, p. 151, fig. 57).
R. Goldwater, What Is Modern Sculpture?, New York, 1969, pp. 42-43 and 45 (smaller version illustrated, p. 43).
A.M. Hammacher, The Evolution of Modern Sculpture: Tradition and Innovation, New York, 1969, pp. 139 and 141 (smaller version illustrated, pp. 135 and 140).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 114, no. 26 (another cast illustrated, p. 50, pl. 53).
A.E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, pp. 112-113 (smaller version illustrated, p. 113).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Boulder, Colorado, 1975, pp. 33-34, 39, 109 and 157 (smaller version illustrated, p. 109; another cast illustrated in situ in the 1968 exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., p. 60).
K.J. Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1920, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, New York, 1975, pp. 70-71 and 182 (smaller version illustrated, pl. S59).
R. Rosenblum, Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art, New York, 1976, pp. 295-296, no. 209 (smaller version illustrated, p. 295).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, Indiana, 1985, p. 68, no. 28 (smaller version illustrated, pp. 76-77, figs. 28a-b; dated 1914).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Daytona Beach, 1989, p. 40 (smaller version illustrated, p. 41; dated 1914).
F.A. Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2014, p. 128 (smaller version illustrated in color, fig. 52).



Further Details

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