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Property from an Important Private Collection, Connecticut

Alexander Archipenko

Egyptian Motif

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Connecticut

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Egyptian Motif

inscribed Archipenko, dated 1917 and numbered 5/12 F

bronze

height: 13½ in.

34.3 cm.

Conceived in 1917 and cast in 1966 by Sheidow Foundry.


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

Archipenko Associates
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above on 7 January 1986 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Galerie Van Diemen, Erste Russische Kunstausstellung, no. 538, illustration of another cast
Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin 1923, pl. 16, illustration of another cast
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York 1960, pp. 152-53, illustrations of another cast
Exh. Cat., Prague, Devětsil at Krasoumné jednoty, Archipenkova Vystava v Praze, no. 21, p. 25, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Munich, Galerie Stangl, Archipenko Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, no. 23, p. 17, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., University of California, Los Angeles Art Museum, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, no. 33, p. 49, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Archipenko: International Visionary, no. 33, p. 53, illustration of another cast
Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen, “Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works 1908-1920,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1977, no. S81, pp. 75-76 and 193, illustration of another cast
Werner Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Kunst, Berlin 1980, pp. 116-29 and 269-28, pl. 162, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Annely Juda Fine Art, First Russian Show: A Commemoration of the Van Diemen Exhibition Berlin 1922, 1983, no. 3, p. 89, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum, Alexander Archipenko, no. 38, pp. 88-91, illustration of another cast
Helen Adkins, “Erste Russische Kunstausstellung, Berlin 1922,” Stationen der Moderne: Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, 1989, p. 197, illustration of another cast
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, vol. II, Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 85, pp. 186-87, illustration of another cast 
Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, fig. s.17-08, no. 2665, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 12 April 2023)