LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

75.6 x 19.7 x 14.9 cm (29 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.)

Edition:

Conceived in 1914 and cast in bronze by Sheidow Foundry in 1969, this work is number 6 from an edition of 8.

Description:

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Markings:

incised with the artist's signature, number and date 'Archipenko 1914 6/8F' on the base

Condition:

An external condition report is available upon request.

Exhibited:

New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Archipenko: Bronzes, 29 September - 24 October 1959, p. 10 (another cast exhibited)
Munich, Galerie Stangl, Alexander Archipenko, 14 February - 4 April 1964, no. 12 (another cast exhibited)
Los Angeles, The University of California Art Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, 24 February - 9 April 1967, no. 20 (another cast exhibited and illustrated)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Archipenko: The Parisian Years, 20 July - 18 October 1970, no. 10 (this cast exhibited)
Ontario, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Archipenko: The American Years, January - February 1971 (another cast exhibited)
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Sculpture of the 20th Century: 1900-1945, 4 July - 4 October 1981 (this cast exhibited)
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Medio siglo de escultura, 30 November - 23 December 1981 (this cast exhibited)
Tel Aviv Museum, Archipenko: The Early Works: 1910-1921, The Erich Goeritz Collection at The Tel Aviv Museum, 1981, pl. 15 (another cast exhibited and illustrated)

Literature:

Les Soirées de Paris, Paris, 15 June 1914, no. 25, p. 347 (plaster example illustrated)
Ivan Goll, Alexander Archipenko: Retrospektive Ausstellung, Potsdam, 1921, pl. 11 (plaster example listed; titled as Femme)
Ivan Goll, 'Archipenko,' Horizont, Vienna, 1921, no. 26, p. 78 (plaster example illustrated)
Ivan Goll, 'Archipenko,' Ma: Aktivista-Folyóirat, vol. VI, no. 6, 25 April 1921, p. 78 (plaster example listed)
Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko. Son Oeuvre, Berlin, 1923, pl. 19 (plaster example illustrated; titled as Statuette)
Lioubomir Mitzitch, Archipenko. Plastique Nouvelle, Belgrade, 1923, no. 17 (plaster example listed; titled as Femme)
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 143 (another cast illustrated)
Giovanni Sangiorgi and Gino Severini, Alexander Archipenko, Rome, 1963, no. 12, pl. 7 (another cast illustrated)
Frederick S. Wight and Donald H. Karshan, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition 1967-1969, Oakland, 1967, p. 46 (another cast listed)
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 19, pl. 62 (another cast illustrated)
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko. The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tubingen, 1974, p. 161 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970, installation view illustrated, p. 65)
Alicia Legg, ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue of the Collection, New York, 1977, p. 10 (this cast listed)
Katherine Jánszky Michaelson and Nehama Guralnik, Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 121, 159 (another cast listed)
Alicia Legg, ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988, p. 8 (this cast listed)
Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.14-06B, no. 2845 (online)

Provenance:

Frances Archipenko Gray, New York<br />Gifted by the above to the present owner in 1969