ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
13.05.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
70000USD $ 70 000
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ID 1425994
Lot 376 | ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
Graceful Movement
signed and numbed 'Archipenko 5/7F' (on the back of the base)
silver plated bronze
Height: 26 ¼ in. (66.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1923; this bronze version cast in 1974
Provenance
Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, February 1979.
Literature
C.J. Bulliet, ed., Tour of the Exhibition of the Works of Alexander Archipenko, New York, 1927, no. 21.
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pp. 59-60 (another cast illustrated, pl. 195).
W. Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Kunst, Berlin, 1980 pp. 127-128 (another cast illustrated, pl. 181).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, p. 270, no. 138 (another cast illustrated, p. 271).
Further details
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
| Artist: | Alexander Porfiryovich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Alexander Porfiryovich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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