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Materials:

bronze

Size Notes:

height: 26¼ in.

Edition:

Conceived in 1921; this example executed in the 1920s.

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed with artist's signature; stamped with the foundry mark GussHeinze-Barth

Condition:

Reddish brown patina. There is some dust and dirt in the crevices, particularly in between the figure's toes, in the bottom of her drapery and in the figure's hair. There is some oxidation to the surface on the drapery behind the figure's proper right foot and in the top of her hair. There is some rubbing to the patina along the edges of the circular inherent base. There is further rubbing along the edges of the figure's drapery and on the figure's toes. There is some light rubbing to the edges of bronze of the figure's proper right arm and on the figure's proper left buttock. There is a quarter-inch white accretion along the back edge of the figure's proper right arm. There is a half-inch scratch on the figure's proper right shoulder. There is a surface crack visible running around the neck of the figure, which is a Roman joint and inherent to the casting process. There is a circular foundry plug visible in the back of the figure's proper right shoulder, also inherent to the casting process. The work is in good condition.

Literature:

Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, pl. 26, illustration of another cast Erich Wiese, Junge Kunst, BAND 40, Alexander Archipenko, Leipzig, 1923, pl. XI, illustration of another cast Paul Westheim, Architektonik des Plastischen, Berlin, 1923, pl. 8b, illustration of another cast Exh. Cat., Denver, Denver Museum of Art and traveling, Western United States Cities Tour of the Exhibition of the Works of Alexander Archipenko,1927, no. 42, n.p., illustration of another cast Exh. Cat., Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern, Plastiksammlung Werner Bär, 1959, no. 1, n.p., illustration of another cast Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunsthaus, Zwei Zurcher Sammlungen, 1959, no. 1, n.p., illustration of another cast Alexander Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 75, illustration of another cast Exh. Cat., Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Archipenko, The Early Works: 1910-1921, The Erich Goeritz Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum, 1981, no. 31, n.p., illustration of another cast Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen, Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute, Tel Aviv, 1986, p. 55, illustration of another cast Anette Barth, "Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II," Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 124, illustrations of another cast p. 246-47 Exh. Cat., New York, The Ukrainian Museum, Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity, 2005, no. 30, pp. 177 and 238 illustrations of another cast Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.21-11, no. 6213, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 20 April 2022)

Provenance:

Private Collection (acquired in Dresden in the 1920s) Thence by descent to the present owner