Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)
Femme se coiffant
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko 1913 1/6' (on the back)
bronze with green patina
Height: 19 3/8 in. (49 cm.)
Conceived in 1913; this bronze version cast in the artist's lifetime
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, May 1986.
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 148 (terracotta version illustrated).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and the Graphic Art, Tübingen, 1974, p. 27 (another cast illustrated).
K.J. Michaelsen, Archipenko, A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1920, New York, 1977, pp. 71-72 and 183, no. S61 (terracotta version illustrated; dated 1915).
D.H. Karshan, Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Danville, 1985, p. 44, no. 17 (another cast illustrated in color, pp. 56-57).