ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
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ID 1472436
Lot 62 | ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Estimate value
450000GBP £ 450 000 – 650 000
Group (Feminine Solitude)
signed, dated and numbered ‘Archipenko 1921 3’ (on top of the base)
marble
Height: 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1921; this example carved at a later date during the artist’s lifetime
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Ruth & Harold Uris, New York, by whom acquired in the 1950s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Raynal, A. Archipenko, Rome, 1923, no. 32 (another example illustrated).
E. Wiese, ‘Alexander Archipenko’, in Junge Kunst, Leipzig, 1923, vol. XXXX, pl. XVI (ceramic version illustrated).
Exh. cat., Trends of the 'Twenties in the School of Paris, exh. cat., New York, 1961, no. 1 (another example illustrated).
D. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Tübingen, 1974, p. 98 (another example illustrated).
D. Karshan, Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Kentucky, 1985, p. 85, no. 38 (another example illustrated p. 93).
G.-W. Költzsch, ed., Alexander Archipenko Erbe Werke von 1908 bis 1963 aus dem testamentarischen Vermächtnis, vol. I, Saarbrücken, 1986, no. 45 (another example illustrated p. 105; titled 'Deux femmes - Feminine Solitude').
H. Schmoll Eisenwerth & G.-W. Költzsch, eds., Skulptur und Plastik, exh. cat., Saarbrücken, 1989, p. 44 (another example illustrated; titled 'Zwei weibliche Akte').
L. Karlin, 20th Century Master Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture from the Nowinski Collection, exh. cat., New York, 1992, p. 12 (another example illustrated p. 13).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenko plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 121, p. 242 (another example illustrated p. 243; titled 'Two Women').
J. Leshko, Alexander Archipenko, Vision and Continuity, exh. cat., New York, 2005, no. 64, pp. 96, 99 & 250 (another example illustrated p. 98).
R. Melcher, Alexander Archipenko, Saarbrücken, 2008, no. 50, p. 214 (another example illustrated pl. 113).
Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, no. 4351 (illustrated; accessed online, September 2025).
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