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Groundbreaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Alexander Archipenko

Leda with Swan

Lot Closed

December 14, 06:20 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Groundbreaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964

Leda with Swan


Inscribed Archipenko and numbered II/6 

Bronze

Height: 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)

Conceived in 1938 and cast in an edition of 6 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
Alexander Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, illustration of another cast pl. 187
Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. & Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, 1986-87, fig. 39, illustration of another cast p. 82
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastisches Oeuvre, Zweiter Teil, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 262, illustration of another cast p. 447
Alexander Archipenko (exhibition catalogue), Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, 2008-09, no. 87, illustration of another cast p. 149