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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida

Alexander Archipenko

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)