Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Walking Torso
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 63 4/8' (on the back leg)
bronze with blue and black patina
Height: 14 in. (35.5 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1963
Literature
D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 76 (another cast illustrated, p. 102, pl. 163). W. Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Plastik, Berlin, 1980, no. 180 (another cast illustrated).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastiches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, p. 606, no. 351 (another cast illustrated, p. 607).
Lot Essay
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.