Lot 328
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Alexander Archipenko

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Description

  • Alexander Archipenko
  • Small Reclining Figure
  • Inscribed Archipenko 1913 and numbered 8/12
  • Bronze, green and brown patina
  • Length: 12 1/2 in.
  • 31.8cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist (possibly)
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1975

Literature

Donald Karshan, Archipenko, the Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tübingen, 1974, illustration of another cast p. 69
 Katherine Janzsky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1921, New York, 1977, no. S44, illustration of another cast pl. S44
Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985,  no. 15, illustration of another cast p. 53

Catalogue Note

According to Francis Archipenko Gray the present work was conceived in 1913 however there are no records of it ever being cast during the artists lifetime.