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Alexander Archipenko

Birth of Venus

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July 17, 05:13 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Birth of Venus

inscribed with the artist's signature and dated 54 twice

bronze and marble

height: 12 ¼ in.

31 cm.

Conceived in 1954 and cast in 1958, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.


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

Please note the cataloguing has been updated for this lot.

Perls Galleries, New York

Constance W. Stafford, Buffalo (acquired from the above in 1959)

Sotheby's New York, 10 May 1989, lot 442 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 1 May 1996, lot 369

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Perls Galleries, Archipenko: Recent Polychromes, 1957, no. 2, illustration of another cast

New York, Barbizon Plaza Art Gallery, Exhibition and Sale for the Benefit of The Treatment Center, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 1958

Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum and Münster, Freie Künstlergemeinschaft Schanze, Archipenko, 50 Jahre seines Schaffens, 1960, no. 50

Paris, Musée Rodin, and traveling, Archipenko: International Visionary, 1969-1970, no. 60, p. 94, illustration of another cast

Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts, Alexandre Archipenko, 1969, no. 60

Danville, Kentucky, The Norton Center for the Arts, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, As Collected, Viewed, and Documented by Donald Karshan, 1985, no. 86, pp. 143, 157, illustration of another cast

New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: The Creative Process, 1991, no. 26, illustration of another cast

West Palm Beach, Eaton Fine Art, Process and Exploration; Recurring Motifs in the Work of Alexander Archipenko, 2002-2003, no. 10

Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Archipenko 2D/3D: Prints and Sculpture, 2006, no. 29, p. 15, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Alexander Archipenko Plastik, Malerei, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1955, no. 47

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 12, illustration in color of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, pl. 146, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86, p. 157, illustration in color of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko, Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Dayton Beach, Florida, 1989, p. 73, illustration of another cast

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, PhD. Diss., University of Trier, Germany, 1997, no. 293, pp. 494, 495

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 12, illustration in color of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 60, pl. 146, p. 147, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86, p. 157, illustration in color of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko, Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1989, p. 73, illustration of another cast

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, PhD. Diss., University of Trier, Germany, 1997, no. 293, pp. 494-95, illustration of another cast