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Flat torso
Details
Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Flat torso
signed and dated 'Archipenko 1914' (on the back of the base)
bronze with mid-brown patina
Height: 15 in. (38 cm.)
Conceived in 1914
Flat torso
signed and dated 'Archipenko 1914' (on the back of the base)
bronze with mid-brown patina
Height: 15 in. (38 cm.)
Conceived in 1914
Provenance
Olga Hauser, New York, by whom acquired from the artist circa 1943, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
I. Goll, Archipenko, New York, 1920 (marble version illustrated p. 2).
I. Goll, T. Daubler & B. Cendrars, Archipenko Album, Potsdam, 1921, no. 1 (another cast illustrated on frontispiece).
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, p. 13 (marble version illustrated pl. 20).
A. Elsen, Origins of modern sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, pp. 111-112 (another cast illustrated pl. 132).
K. Janzsky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1963, New York, 1977, p. 34 (another cast illustrated pl. 49).
D. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, nos. 26a-c, p. 58 (the variants illustrated pp. 74-75).
I. Goll, T. Daubler & B. Cendrars, Archipenko Album, Potsdam, 1921, no. 1 (another cast illustrated on frontispiece).
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, p. 13 (marble version illustrated pl. 20).
A. Elsen, Origins of modern sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, pp. 111-112 (another cast illustrated pl. 132).
K. Janzsky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1963, New York, 1977, p. 34 (another cast illustrated pl. 49).
D. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, nos. 26a-c, p. 58 (the variants illustrated pp. 74-75).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Sale room notice
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.