
Silver Torso
Session begins in
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)
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