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Angelica, Angelica's Sarcophagus
Details
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Angelica, Angelica's Sarcophagus
signed and numbered '5⁄8 F E Archipenko' (on the top of the base)
gilded bronze
Length: 14 in. (35 cm.)
Height: 12 ¼ in. (30.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1925 and cast in 2008
Angelica, Angelica's Sarcophagus
signed and numbered '5⁄8 F E Archipenko' (on the top of the base)
gilded bronze
Length: 14 in. (35 cm.)
Height: 12 ¼ in. (30.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1925 and cast in 2008
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner, 2012.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 232 (plaster version illustrated).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 114, no. 44 (another cast illustrated, p. 77, pl. 113).
B. Dorival, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1974, p. 206 (another cast illustrated, p. 205, fig. 24).
E. Pontiggia, Alexander Archipenko: L'arte e l'universo, Montebelluna, 1988 (another cast illustrated).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 292, no. 156 (another cast illustrated, p. 293).
F.A. Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2014, p. 25 (another cast illustrated in color, fig. 9).
F.A. Gray, Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2015, p. 16, no. 5 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 17).
The Alexander Archipenko Foundation, The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné (www.archipenkocr.org), no. 5598 (illustrated in color; accessed April 2026).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 114, no. 44 (another cast illustrated, p. 77, pl. 113).
B. Dorival, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1974, p. 206 (another cast illustrated, p. 205, fig. 24).
E. Pontiggia, Alexander Archipenko: L'arte e l'universo, Montebelluna, 1988 (another cast illustrated).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, p. 292, no. 156 (another cast illustrated, p. 293).
F.A. Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2014, p. 25 (another cast illustrated in color, fig. 9).
F.A. Gray, Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2015, p. 16, no. 5 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 17).
The Alexander Archipenko Foundation, The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné (www.archipenkocr.org), no. 5598 (illustrated in color; accessed April 2026).
Further details
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
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Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale