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Alexander Archipenko

Silver Torso

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May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Bid

60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Silver Torso

inscribed Archipenko and numbered 11/12F

silver-plated bronze

height (excluding base): 39 in. 99.1 cm.

Conceived in 1931; this example cast in 1969 by the Sheidow Bronze Corporation.


The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of artwork by Alexander Archipenko.

Estate of the artist

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1972)

Landau Fine Art, Montreal

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Archipenko, 50 Creative Years, New York, 1960, no. 158, n.p., illustration of another cast

Chicago, Kovler Gallery, Archipenko: Content and Continuity, 1908-1963, 1968, no. 20, p. 51, pl. 9, illustration of another cast; p. 16

Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Archipenko, 1969, no. 46, pp. 27 and 44, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin (and traveling), Archipenko: Visionnaire international, 1969, no. 46, pp. 75 and 114, pl. 108, illustration of another cast (titled Torse d’argent)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institute, Archipenko, ein internationaler Visionär, 1969, no. 46, pp. 75 and 114, fig. 108, illustration of another cast

New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., Archipenko: The American Years, 1923-1963, 1970, no. 3, pp. 10 and 36, illustration of another cast

New York, Pace Galleries, Archipenko at Pace, 1973, no. 11, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Bloomington, 1985, no. 72, pp. 128-29, illustration of another cast; pp. 136-37

Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Alexander Archipenkos erbe Werke von 1908 bis 1963 aus dem testamentarischen Vermächtnis, 1986, no. 71, p. 157, illustration of the plaster

Annette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches oeuvre, vol. II, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 199, pp. 360-61, illustration of the plaster

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, no. 2455, fig. S.31-05, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 1 May 2026)