Property from a Private Collection

Alexander Archipenko

Flat Torso

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Flat Torso

inscribed Archipenko

plaster

height: 18 ¼ in. 46.2 cm.

Conceived in 1914.


The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of artwork by Alexander Archipenko.

Kunstzaal van Lier, Amsterdam

Thijs Rinsema, Assen (acquired by 1947)

F.J. Sandbergen, Amsterdam

Christie's, Amsterdam, 19 March 1985, lot 713 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ivan Goll, Archipenko, New York, 1920, p. 2, illustration of the marble version

Ivan Goll, Theodore Daubler and Blaise Cendrars, Archipenko Album, Potsdam, 1921, no. I, illustration of the bronze version on the cover

Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, pl. 20, illustration of the marble version

Albert E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, pl. 132, illustration of the bronze version

Katherine Janszky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works 1908-1920, New York, 1977, no. 549, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Kentucky, 1985, no. 26a-c, pp. 74-75, illustrations of other casts

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches oeuvre, vol. II, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 59, p. 137, illustration of the marble version

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, no. 3270, fig. S.14-02, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 1 May 2025)

Catalogue note

(C) 2025 Sotheby's
All alcoholic beverage sales in New York are made solely by Sotheby's Wine (NEW L1046028)