Lot 241
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ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO | Small Reclining Figure

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Archipenko
  • Small Reclining Figure
  • Inscribed Archipenko, dated 1913 and numbered 12/12F
  • Bronze
  • Length: 12 in.
  • 30.4 cm
  • Conceived in 1913; this example cast in 1969 by the Sheldow Foundry, Kingwood, West Virginia.

Provenance

Archipenko Associates, Woodstock
Frances Archipenko Gray, Woodstock (acquired from the above in 1972)
Private Collection, Palm Beach (acquired by 1978)
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Private Collection, Florida (acquired from the above in 2002 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2016, lot 321)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Donald Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Tubingen, 1974, illustration of another cast p. 69
Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen, Archipenko, A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1920, New York, 1977, illustration of the plaster cast pl. 44
Donald Karshan, Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 15, illustration of another cast p. 53
Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.13-12, no. 764, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on September 25, 2019)

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Attractive varied reddish brown patina. There are a few minor spots of accretion in crevices and pindot stains and scuffs on the surface.
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