Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Lazarus
signed and numbered 'Archipenko 9/12F' (on the left side)
bronze with blue-green patina
Height: 23 in. (58.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1952; this bronze version cast by the estate of the artist
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Donald H. Karshan, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, circa 1980.
Literature
E. Wiese, Archipenko, New York, 1955, no. 91 (marble version illustrated).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 57 (another cast illustrated, p. 89 and pl. 139).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, p. 148, no. 80a (another cast illustrated).
Lot Essay
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.