Lot 418
  • 418

Alexander Archipenko

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Archipenko
  • Lying Horizontal Figure
  • Inscribed Archipenko and numbered 1
  • Bronze 
  • Length: 13 3/4 in.
  • 35 cm

Provenance

Peter Rübel, Arizona (acquired from the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York
Sale: Sotheby's, London, March 20, 1995, lot 257
Sale: Karl & Faber, May 31, 2006, lot 638
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Galerie Thomas, Munich, Alexander Archipenko: Skulpturen, 2008, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, illustration of another cast pl. 130 
Alexander Archipenko (exhibition catalogue), UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 55
Donald Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tübingen, 1974, p. 40
Donald Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, illustration of another cast p. 162
Alexander Archipenko, Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Saarbrücken, 1986, no. 93, illustration of the plaster p. 195

Condition

Bronze with gold and dark brown patina affixed to a marble base at one point on the underside.The base is slightly dirty and there are one or two spots of minor green discoloration the the patina of the sculpture, most noticeably on the back of the figure's bottom leg near the base, otherwise fine. This work is in very good condition.
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