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Property from a Staten Island Collection

Alexander Archipenko

Seated

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Staten Island Collection

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Seated

inscribed Archipenko 

polished terracotta

height: 22 ⅛ in. 56.2 cm. 

Executed in 1939; this work is unique.


The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Frances Archipenko Gray.

Schoneman Galleries, New York

Private Collection, Staten Island (acquired by 1954)

Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner

Chicago, Kuh Gallery, Third Exhibition of Works by Alexander Archipenko, 1940

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cranbrook Art Museum, Third Biennial Exhibition of Textiles and Ceramics, 1951, no. 102

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Archipenko: 110th Exhibition, 50 Years of Production, 1954, no. 55

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, no. 421, fig. s.39-03, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 31 October 2024)

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 224, n.p., illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)

Annette Barth, Alexander Archipenko’s plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 265, pp. 450-51, illustrated