Lot Essay
The Archipenko Foundation will include this terracotta in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
.jpg?w=1)
Walking Woman
Details
Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Walking Woman
signed 'Archipenko' (on the front of the base)
polychrome terracotta
Height: 27 1/8 in. (68.9 cm.)
Conceived circa 1937; this terracotta version executed by 1951
Walking Woman
signed 'Archipenko' (on the front of the base)
polychrome terracotta
Height: 27 1/8 in. (68.9 cm.)
Conceived circa 1937; this terracotta version executed by 1951
Provenance
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (acquired from the artist); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1 March 1972, lot 20.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Kurt Olden, New York (by 1975).
Anon. sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 5 December 2008, lot 1375.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private collection (acquired at the above sale).
Kurt Olden, New York (by 1975).
Anon. sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 5 December 2008, lot 1375.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 162 (illustrated).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, vol. II, p. 437, no. 252 (another version illustrated).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos Plastisches Oeuvre, Frankfurt, 1997, vol. II, p. 437, no. 252 (another version illustrated).
Exhibited
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Third Biennial Exhibition of Textiles and Ceramics, 1951, no. 100 (illustrated).
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Archipenko, 110th Exhibition, Fifty Years Production, October-November 1954, no. 79 (dated 1936).
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Archipenko, 110th Exhibition, Fifty Years Production, October-November 1954, no. 79 (dated 1936).