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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
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Details
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Figure
signed 'Archipenko' (along the lower edge)
terracotta on wooden base
Height (including base): 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
Executed in 1936; unique
Figure
signed 'Archipenko' (along the lower edge)
terracotta on wooden base
Height (including base): 19 in. (48.3 cm.)
Executed in 1936; unique
Provenance
Northwestern University, Evanston (circa 1955); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 February 1992, lot 70.
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960 (illustrated, fig. 157).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, vol. 2, pp. 416-417, no. 237.
The Alexander Archipenko Foundation, The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné (www.archipenkocr.org), no. 2321 (illustrated in color; accessed February 2026).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, vol. 2, pp. 416-417, no. 237.
The Alexander Archipenko Foundation, The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné (www.archipenkocr.org), no. 2321 (illustrated in color; accessed February 2026).
Exhibited
Seattle Art Museum, Sculpture and Drawings by Alexander Archipenko, June-July 1936.
Chicago, Katherine Kuh Gallery, First Group Exhibition at Katherine Kuh Gallery, December 1937.
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Sculpture by Archipenko, February 1938.
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Sculpture by Alexander Archipenko, April-May 1938 (titled Dignity).
Iowa City, University of Iowa; Omaha, University of Omaha; Springfield, Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia, Art Alliance Gallery, Alexander Archipenko in Retrospect: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, February 1939-March 1940.
Chicago, Katherine Kuh Gallery, First Group Exhibition at Katherine Kuh Gallery, December 1937.
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Sculpture by Archipenko, February 1938.
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Sculpture by Alexander Archipenko, April-May 1938 (titled Dignity).
Iowa City, University of Iowa; Omaha, University of Omaha; Springfield, Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia, Art Alliance Gallery, Alexander Archipenko in Retrospect: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture, February 1939-March 1940.
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
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