Property from an Important Collection, Colorado

Alexander Archipenko

Seated Woman Combing Her Hair

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March 11, 07:37 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Collection, Colorado

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964

Seated Woman Combing Her Hair

Inscribed Archipenko, dated 1915 and numbered 3/8

Bronze

Height: 21 ½ in.

54.6 cm

Conceived in 1915 and cast in a numbered edition of 8; this example cast after the artist's lifetime.

The sculpture is in very good condition. Mottled blue-green patina. Light accretions in crevices. Light rubbing to extremities.

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Frances Archipenko Gray, New York (the wife of the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1966)
Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, February 4, 1975, lot 321
Acquired at the above sale

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.15-08B, no. 3376, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on February 19, 2021)