
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida
Turning Torso
Session begins in
November 19, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Bid
130,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida
Alexander Archipenko
1887 - 1964
Turning Torso
inscribed Archipenko, dated 21 and numbered 3
bronze
height (excluding base): 18 ¾ in. 47.6 cm.
Conceived in 1921; this example cast in 1958.
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of artwork by Alexander Archipenko.
Grosvenor Gallery, London (acquired directly from the artist in 1958)
Mrs. A. Bluds, London
Sotheby & Co., London, 25 November 1964, lot 167a (consigned by the above)
Zwemmer Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)
Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London
Sotheby & Co., London, 29 November 1967, lot 19 (consigned by the above)
Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London (acquired at the above sale)
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, pl. 28, illustration of a marble version (dated 1922)
Erich Wiese, "Alexander Archipenko," Junge Kunst, vol. 40, 1923, pl. XV, illustration of a marble version (titled Torso and dated 1922)
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 118, n.p., illustration of a marble version (dated 1922)
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 38, p. 63, pl. 81, illustration of the larger version
Donald H. Karshan ed., Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tübingen, 1974, n.n., p. 99, illustration of a marble version
Werner Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der modernen Kunst, Berlin, 1980, no. 174, p. 126, illustration of another cast
Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, no. 4215, fig. S.21-04A, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 1 November 2026)
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