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Alexander Archipenko

Leda with Swan

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October 1, 04:41 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Leda with Swan

inscribed Archipenko (on the reverse)

bronze

height: 13 ⅛ in.

33.3 cm.

Conceived in 1938 and cast in 1952 as number 3 in an edition of 14 during the artist's lifetime.


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

Please note the provenance and literature for this work has been updated.

Private Collection, New Jersey

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Alexander Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, illustration of another cast p. 187

Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. & Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, 1986-87, fig. 39, illustration of another cast p. 82

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastisches Oeuvre, Zweiter Teil, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 262, illustration of another cast p. 447

Alexander Archipenko (exhibition catalogue), Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, 2008-09, no. 87, illustration of another cast p. 149

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, fig. s.38-01, no. 3953, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 1 October 2024)