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The Collection of Sybil Shainwald

Alexander Archipenko

Woman Combing Her Hair

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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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The Collection of Sybil Shainwald

Alexander Archipenko

1887 - 1964


Woman Combing Her Hair

inscribed Archipenko, dated 1915 and numbered 8

bronze

height: 14 in. 35.6 cm.

Conceived in 1915; this example cast in 1960.


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

Galerie Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, London (acquired in 1960)

Grosvenor Gallery, London (acquired in 1994)

Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York (acquired in 1999)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Theodor Däubler and Iwan Goll, Archipenko Album, Potsdam, 1921, pl. 13, illustration of the terracotta version (titled Standing Woman)

Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenkoson oeuvre, Berlin, 1923, no. 14, illustration of another cast

Robert Goldwater and René d'Harnoncourt, "Modern Art in Your Life," The Museum of Modern Art, issue 17, p. 24, illustration of another cast

Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 146, illustration of another cast

Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture. The Effects of Science and Technology on the Sculpture of This Century, New York, 1968, no. 57, pp. 150 and 391, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 53, pp. 50 and 114, illustration of another cast

Albert E. Elsen, "Pioneers and Premises of Modern Sculpture," Pioneers of Modern Sculpture, London, 1973, no. 53, pp. 14 and 114, illustration of another cast

Donald Karshan, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art. Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Tübingen, 1974, pp. 109 and 161, illustration of another cast

Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works 1908-1920, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 1977, no. S59, pp. 70-71 and 182, illustration of another cast (titled Standing Woman Combing Her Hair)

Donald Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations 1908-1963, Daytona Beach, 1989, illustration of another cast

Donald M. Reynolds, Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition from the American Renaissance to the Millenium, New York, 1993, p. 239, illustration of another cast

Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, vol. II, Frankfurt, 1997, no. 63, pp. 144-47, illustration of another cast

Frances Archipenko Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Munich, 2014, p. 128, pl. 52, illustration of another cast

Junge Kunst: Alexander Archipenko, vol. 17, 2015, no. 17, p. 28, illustration of another cast

Alexander Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné, 2018, no. 2815, fig. S.15-02A, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 1 May 2026)