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Property from an Important New York Collection

Alexander Archipenko

Walking Torso

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Walking Torso

inscribed Archipenko, dated 63 and numbered 8/8F 

bronze

height: 14 ¼ in. 35.6 cm.

Conceived in 1963; this example cast by the Sheidow Bronze Corporation in 1967.


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

Archipenko Associates (acquired in 1967)

Frances Archipenko Gray (acquired in 1972)

Steed Fine Arts (Marguerite Hoffmann Steed), Texas (acquired from the above in 1987)

Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above in 1994)

Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2021, lot 95 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin (and traveling), Archipenko, International Visionary, 1969-70, no. 76, p. 102, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Archipenko: The American Years, 1923-1963, 1970, no. 28

Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, Archipenko at Pace, 1973, no. 25, illustration of another cast

Werner Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Kunst, Berlin, 1980, no. 180, pp. 116-29 and 269-81, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum (and traveling), Alexander Archipenko, 1986, no. 108, pp. 224-25, illustration of the plaster

Exh. Cat., Caracas, Galeria Freites, Alexander Archipenko, 1991, p. 31

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, no. 351, pp. 606-07, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum, Alexander Archipenko, 2008-09, no. 117, pp. 182-83, illustration of the plaster; p. 226

Frances Archipenko Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2014, p. 175, fig. 65, illustration of the plaster

Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, fig. S.63-02, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 31 October 2024)