Lot 136
  • 136

Alexander Archipenko

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Archipenko
  • Conversation
  • Inscribed Archipenko and numbered 8/12 F
  • Bronze 
  • Height: 9 7/8 in.
  • 24.9 cm

Provenance

Donald Karshan, Florida
Sale: Christie's, New York, November 16, 1988, lot 370
Private Collection, California (acquired at the above sale) 
A gift from the above 

Literature

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, illustration of the terracotta version pl. 216
Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, illustration of another cast p. 139
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 243, illustration of the terracotta version p. 424

Condition

Dark greenish-blue patina. Some rubbing to the patina to the ridges towards the top of the work as well as a few scattered pindot scuffs throughout. Some small scratched to a concentrated area of the back near the base. Otherwise fine. Good condition.
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