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ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Flat Torso
signed and dated 'Archipenko 1914' (on the top of the base)
silver-plated bronze
Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1914; this bronze version cast circa 1947
Provenance
Weintraub Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Kansas City, Missouri (acquired from the above).
Anon. (acquired from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 2015, lot 1358.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
I. Goll, Archipenko, New York, 1920, p. 2 (another cast illustrated).
I. Goll, T. Däubler and B. Cendrars, Archipenko-Album, Potsdam, 1921, no. 1 (another cast illustrated).
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko Berlin, 1923, p. 13 (another cast illustrated, pl. 20).
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960 (another cast illustrated, pls. 205-206).
A.E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, p. 112 (another cast illustrated, fig. 132).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, Boulder, 1974, p. 34 (another cast illustrated).
K.J. Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1921, Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, New York, 1977, p. 33, no. S49 (another cast illustrated).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, p. 58, no. 26 (another cast illustrated, pp. 74-75).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko: Themes and Variations, 1908-1963, Daytona Beach, 1989, p. 87, nos. 2 and 4.
Post lot text
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko