ID 1425998
Lot 421 | ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
Birth of Venus
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 54 1' (on the back)
bronze with green patina, granite and turquoise
Height: 12 3/8 in. (32.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1954 and executed in 1957
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander E. Racolin, New York (acquired from the above, 1957).
Mark Borghi Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 60 (illustrated, pl. 146).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, pp. 5, and 143, no. 86 (another version illustrated, p. 157)
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Dayton Beach, 1989, p. 72 (another version illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Archipenko, Recent Polychromes, October-November 1957, no. 2.
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, Granite, Stone |
| Art style: | Modern art, Avant-garde |
| Genre: | Allegory, Mythological painting |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Alexander Porfiryovich Archipenko (1887 - 1964) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze, Granite, Stone |
| Art style: | Modern art, Avant-garde |
| Genre: | Allegory, Mythological painting |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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