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Groundbreaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Alexander Archipenko

King Solomon

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December 14, 06:20 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Groundbreaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964

King Solomon


Inscribed Archipenko, dated 63, numbered 1/12 and inscribed ((.))

Bronze

Height: 25 3/4 in. (65.4 cm)

Conceived in 1963 and cast in an edition of 12; this example cast during the artist's lifetime.


The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Frances Archipenko Gray.

Estate of the artist
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above on December 30, 1969
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, Content and Continuity, 1908-1963, Chicago, 1968, illustration of another cast p. 12
Donald H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, nos. 174-176, illustration of another cast p. 106
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 95
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries & traveling, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition 1967-69, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée Rodin, Archipenko: International Visionary, 1969, n.n.
New York, Danenberg Galleries, Archipenko: The American Years, 1970, illustrated in the catalogue