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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 9, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale | 27 | $****** - ****** | Concave vert (Femme se coiffant) |
sculpture
48.9 cm (19.25 in)
Bronze
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above on April 8, 1966
Roland Schacht, Archipenko Sturm-Bilderbuch II, Berlin, 1923, illustration in color of the terracotta on the cover
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 148, illustration of the terracotta n.p.
Alexander Archipenko (exhibition catalogue), Galerie im Erker, St. Gallen, 1962-63, illustration of another cast p. 11
Giovanni Sangiorgi, Gino Severini & Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Archipenko, Rome, 1963, p. 34
Frederick S. Wight, "Retrospective for Archipenko" in Art in America, vol. 55, no. 3, May-June 1967, illustrated p. 68
Alexander Archipenko A Memorial Exhibition 1967-1969 (exhibition catalogue), University of California Galleries, Los Angeles, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 42
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, illustration of another cast and of the terracotta p. 61
Donald H. Karshan, "Les Révolutions d'Alexandre Archipenko" in Plaisir de France, no. 421, July 1974, illustrated pl. 11
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and the Graphic Art, Tübingen, 1974, illustration of another cast pp. 27 and of the terracotta p. 51
Katherine J. Michaelsen, Archipenko, A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1920, New York, 1977, no. S61, pp. 71-72 & 183, illustration of the terracotta n.p. (dated 1915)
Ildikó Nagy, Archipenko, Budapest, 1980, no. 23, illustration of another cast n.p.
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Danville, 1985, no. 17, illustrations in color of another cast pp. 56-57
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Zweiter Teil: Werkverzeichnis, Frankfurt am Main, 1997, no. 51, illustration of the terracotta p. 113
Alexander Archipenko Vision and Continuity (exhibition catalogue), The Ukrainian Museum, New York; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton & Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, 2005-06, illustration of another cast n.p.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Frances Archipenko Gray.
