Lot Essay
The Archipenko Foundation will include this bronze in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
Property from a Private Chicago Collection
Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Egyptian Motif
Details
Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Egyptian Motif
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 1917 6/12 F' (on the back of the base)
bronze with green patina
Height: 13½ in. (34.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1917; this bronze version cast in 1966 by the estate of the artist
Egyptian Motif
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 1917 6/12 F' (on the back of the base)
bronze with green patina
Height: 13½ in. (34.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1917; this bronze version cast in 1966 by the estate of the artist
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Chicago.
Private collection, Chicago (acquired from the above, October 1975).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Chicago.
Private collection, Chicago (acquired from the above, October 1975).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960 (earthenware version illustrated, pls. 152-153).
D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington D.C., 1969, p. 114, no. 33 (another cast illustrated, p. 53 and pl. 57).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastiches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, vol. II, p. 186, no. 85 (painted plaster version illustrated, p. 187).
D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington D.C., 1969, p. 114, no. 33 (another cast illustrated, p. 53 and pl. 57).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastiches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, vol. II, p. 186, no. 85 (painted plaster version illustrated, p. 187).
Exhibited
New York, Pace Gallery, Archipenko at Pace, September-October 1973.
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