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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Birth of Venus
Details
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Birth of Venus
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 54 1' (on the back)
bronze with green patina, granite, marble and turquoise
Height (including base): 14 in. (35.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1954 and executed in 1957
Birth of Venus
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 54 1' (on the back)
bronze with green patina, granite, marble and turquoise
Height (including base): 14 in. (35.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1954 and executed in 1957
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander E. Racolin, New York (acquired from the above, 1957).
Mark Borghi Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander E. Racolin, New York (acquired from the above, 1957).
Mark Borghi Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 60 (illustrated, pl. 146).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, pp. 5, and 143, no. 86 (another version illustrated, p. 157)
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Dayton Beach, 1989, p. 72 (another version illustrated).
D. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 60 (illustrated, pl. 146).
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, pp. 5, and 143, no. 86 (another version illustrated, p. 157)
D. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Dayton Beach, 1989, p. 72 (another version illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Archipenko, Recent Polychromes, October-November 1957, no. 2.
Further details
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
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