Alexander Archipenko (1887-1965)
Repose
signed, dated and numbered 'Archipenko. 1911 2/6' (on the front of the base); inscribed 'Ex N.2.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina with green undertones
Height: 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1911; this example cast in 1961
Provenance
Private collection, London, probably acquired in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
Literature
H. Hildebrandt, Alexandre Archipenko, son oeuvre, Berlin, 1923, pl. 6 (marble version illustrated). A. Archipenko, Archipenko Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 79 (marble version illustrated; dated '1910'). D. Karshan (ed.), Archipenko, International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 7, p. 38 (another cast illustrated pl. 30).