A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Alexander Archipenko

Femme assise

Auction Closed

November 19, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Femme assise

inscribed Archipenko, dated Paris 1912 and numbered 1/12

bronze

height: 15 ½ in. 39.4 cm.

Conceived in 1912; this example cast in 1966 by the Sheidow Bronze Corporation.


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

Estate of the artist

Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above in 1972)

Private Collection (acquired by 1996)

Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Der Sturm, ed., Alexander Archipenko, Sturm Bilderbucher II, Berlin, 1917, p. 6, pl. 6, illustration of the terracotta version

Roland Schacht, Alexander Archipenko, Sturm Bilderbucher II, Berlin, 1923, p. 23, pl. 10, illustration of the terracotta version

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 227, illustration of the terracotta version

Donald H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington D.C., 1969, no. 13, pp. 36-37 and 114, pl. 29, illustration of another cast

Donald H. Karshan, "Les révolutions d'Alexandre Archipenko," Plaisir de France, 1974, no. 421, pp. 12-17, pl. 13, illustration of another cast

Bernard Dorival, "Les Omissions d'Archipenko et de Lipchitz," Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1974, no. 43, illustration of another cast

Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen, Archipenko, A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1921, New York, 1977, no. 32, pp. 62-64 and 166, pl. 32, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Kelen Server La Boetie, Herwarth Walden and Der Sturm, 1981, p. 29, illustration of another cast

Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, no. 12, pp. 33 and 42-43, figs. 12a and 12b, illustrated

"Artist Spotlight–Alexander Archipenko," The Artist's Foundry for Practicing Sculptors, vol. 4, 1981, no. 1, p. 1, illustrations of another cast

Annette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 36, pp. 78-79, illustration of the plaster

Alexandra Keiser, "Alexander Archipenko: Bronzes," Posthumous Bronzes in Law and Art History, International Colloquium, Saint Petersburg, 2012, pp. 58-59

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, no. 2968, fig. S.12-02, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 24 October 2024)

University of California Los Angeles Art Museum (and traveling), Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, 1967-69, no. 13, p. 39, pl. 13, illustrated (titled Seated Figure)

Paris, Musée Rodin (and traveling), Archipenko: Visionnaire international, 1969, no. 13, p. 37, pl. 29, illustrated

Palais de Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Archipenko, 1969

Musée de Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Musée de Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Musée de Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Alexander Archipenko, 1969