
Property from a Private European Collection
Femme assise
Auction Closed
April 17, 04:25 PM GMT
Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Alexander Archipenko
1887 - 1964
Femme assise
inscribed Archipenko and dated Paris 1912
terracotta
height: 38cm., 15 in.
Conceived and executed in 1912; this work is one of two known examples executed during the artist's lifetime, one painted plaster and this terracotta.
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of artwork by Alexander Archipenko.
Herwarth Walden (Der Sturm), Berlin (acquired by 1913)
Dr Eduard Plietzsch, Berlin (acquired circa 1920s)
Private Collection, Europe (by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 6 December 1983, lot 391 (consigned by the above)
Private collection
Sotheby's, London, 5 February 2020, lot 107
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Hagen, Museum Folkwang, Le Fauconnier-Alexander Archipenko, 1912-1913, no. 12
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Alexander Archipenko, 1913, no. 7
Genève, Salle d'exposition de la Librairie Kundig et Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alexander Archipenko, 1919-1920, no. 10
"Alexander Archipenko," Sturm-Bilderbücher II, Berlin, 1917, p. 6, illustrated
Roland Schacht, Alexander Archipenko, Sturm-Bilderbücher II, Berlin, 1924, p. 10, pl. 10, illustrated
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, New York, 1960, pl. 227, illustrated
Exp. Cat., Los Angeles, University of California at Los Angeles Art Galleries, Alexander Archipenko, A Memorial Exhibition, 1967-69, p. 39, bronze version illustrated
Donald H. Karshan, "Les Révolutions d'Alexandre Archipenko," in Plaisir de France, 1974, pp. 12-17, illustrated and p. 13
Katherine Janszky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1921, New York, 1977, pp. 62-64, pl. 32, illustrated
"Artist Spotlight—Alexander Archipenko", The Artist's Foundry for Practicing Sculptors, Modern Art Foundry, vol. 4, no. 1, New York, 1981, pl. 1, bronze version illustrated
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