PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Madonna
Details
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Madonna
signed 'ARCHIPENKO' (on the back)
white marble
Height: 24 ¾ in. (62.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1936
Madonna
signed 'ARCHIPENKO' (on the back)
white marble
Height: 24 ¾ in. (62.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1936
Provenance
Julie Andrews.
Claire Ziegler, Chicago.
Private collection, La Jolla (by 1960).
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Private collection, United Kingdom; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1989, lot 73.
François Privat (March 2001).
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 2004, lot 296.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Claire Ziegler, Chicago.
Private collection, La Jolla (by 1960).
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Private collection, United Kingdom; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1989, lot 73.
François Privat (March 2001).
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 2004, lot 296.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
J.I.R. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951, no. 104 (possibly another version illustrated, pl. 104; dated 1932).
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 166 (another version illustrated, pls. 165-166).
D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 53 (polychrome bronze version illustrated, pl. 120).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, vol. 2, p. 412, no. 233 (another version illustrated, p. 413).
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 166 (another version illustrated, pls. 165-166).
D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 53 (polychrome bronze version illustrated, pl. 120).
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, vol. 2, p. 412, no. 233 (another version illustrated, p. 413).
Further Details
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
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