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Property from an Important Private Collection, Connecticut

Alexander Archipenko

Statue on a Triangular Base

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Connecticut

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Statue on a Triangular Base

inscribed Archipenko, dated 1914 and numbered 5/6 

bronze

height: 30⅛ in.

76.5 cm.

Conceived in 1914 and cast in 1961.


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

Estate of the artist
Donald Karshan (acquired from the above in 1972)
Acquired from the above on 11 March 1991 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Archipenko: Bronzes, 1959, no. 10 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Hagen, Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum (and traveling), Archipenko, 50 Jahre seines Schaffens, 1960, no. 11, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Grosvenor Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: Sculpture and Sculpto-Painting, 1909-1921, 1961 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Antwerp, Kunsthistorische Musea, Openlucht Museum, 6e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, 1961, no. 308 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery, Alexander Archipenko Exhibition, 1962, no. 14, p. 9, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., St. Gallen, Galerie Im Erker, Alexander Archipenko, 1962-1963, no. 12, p. 32, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Milan, Centro Culturale San Fedele, Mostra antologica di Archipenko, 1963, no. 12 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Rome, Ente Premi, Alexander Archipenko, 1963, no. 12, fig. 7, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Louisiana bezoekt Middelheim: deense beeldhouwkunst, 1964, no. 104 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Munich, Galerie Stangl, Alexander Archipenko, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, 1964, no. 12, p. 15, illustration of the plaster version
Elda Fezzi, Alexander Archipenko, Milan 1966, pl. V, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, UCLA (and traveling), Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, 1967, no. 20, p. 46, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Grosvenor Gallery, Aspects of Russian Experimental Art 1900-1925, 1967, no. 5 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., London, Grosvenor Gallery, Sculpture From the Human Form, 1968, no. 2 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin (and traveling), Archipenko, International Visionary, 1969-1970, no. 19, p. 55, fig. 62, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Archipenko: The Parisian Years, 1970-1972 (another cast exhibited)
Donald Karshan, “Les révolutions d’Alexander Archipenko,” Plaisir de France, vol. XL, no. 421, July 1974 (another cast mentioned)
Donald Karshan, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Tübingen 1974, p. 65, illustration of another cast (in a photograph)
Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Sculpture du XXè siècle 1900-1945: Tradition et rupture, 1981, no. 4 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Medio siglo de escultura, 1981, no. 3 (another cast exhibited)
Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum (and traveling), Alexander Archipenko, 1986, no. 26, pp. 64-65, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat. Antwerp, Middleheimmuseum, Musée de sculpture en plein air: catalogue de la collection, 1987, p. 4, illustration of another cast
Alicia Legg and Mary Beth Smalley, eds., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art: Catalog of the Collection with Selected Works on Paper to January 1988, New York 1988, p. 8 (another cast mentioned)
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 58, p. 130 and 133, illustration of another cast
Oleksandra Syn’ko, Innovations of Archipenko, Kiev 2001, pp. 65 and 90, pls. 21 and 39, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Greenwich, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art, 2003, pp. 12-13 and 76, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum, Alexander Archipenko, 2008-2009, no. 2, pp. 80, 209 and 210, illustration of another cast
Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.14-06B, no. 2844, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 24 January 2023)
Danville, Kentucky, The Norton Center for the Arts, Center College, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, As Collected, Viewed, and Documented by Donald Karshan, 1985, no. 25, pp. 55, 58 and 72, illustrated
New York, The Ukrainian Museum; Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art and Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity, 2005, no. 18, pp. 165 and 236, illustrated