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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 2024 | Birth of Venus | 5 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
| May 1, 1996 | Birth of Venus | Christie's | New York | ||||
| Jun 14, 1995 | Birth of Venus | Sotheby's | Arcade | ||||
| Nov 12, 1992 | Birth of Venus | Christie's | New York | ||||
| May 10, 1989 | Birth of Venus | Sotheby's | New York | ||||
sculpture
31.1 cm (12.25 in)
bronze and marble
inscribed with the artist"s signature and dated 54 twice
Perls Galleries, New York
Constance W. Stafford, Buffalo (acquired from the above in 1959)
Sotheby"s New York, 10 May 1989, lot 442 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)
Christie"s New York, 1 May 1996, lot 369
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Perls Galleries, Archipenko: Recent Polychromes , 1957, no. 2, illustration of another cast
New York, Barbizon Plaza Art Gallery, Exhibition and Sale for the Benefit of The Treatment Center, New York Psychoanalytic Institute , 1958
Hagen, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum and Münster, Freie Künstlergemeinschaft Schanze, Archipenko, 50 Jahre seines Schaffens , 1960, no. 50
Paris, Musée Rodin, and traveling, Archipenko: International Visionary , 1969-1970, no. 60, p. 94, illustration of another cast
Rennes, Musée des beaux-arts, Alexandre Archipenko , 1969, no. 60
Danville, Kentucky, The Norton Center for the Arts, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, As Collected, Viewed, and Documented by Donald Karshan , 1985, no. 86, pp. 143, 157, illustration of another cast
New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: The Creative Process , 1991, no. 26, illustration of another cast
West Palm Beach, Eaton Fine Art, Process and Exploration; Recurring Motifs in the Work of Alexander Archipenko , 2002-2003, no. 10
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Archipenko 2D/3D: Prints and Sculpture , 2006, no. 29, p. 15, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Alexander Archipenko Plastik, Malerei, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik , 1955, no. 47
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958 , New York, 1960, pl. 12, illustration in color of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary , Washington, D.C., 1969, pl. 146, illustration of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963 , Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86, p. 157, illustration in color of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko, Themes and Variations, 1908-1963 , Dayton Beach, Florida, 1989, p. 73, illustration of another cast
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre , PhD. Diss., University of Trier, Germany, 1997, no. 293, pp. 494, 495
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958 , New York, 1960, pl. 12, illustration in color of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary , Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 60, pl. 146, p. 147, illustration of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963 , Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86, p. 157, illustration in color of another cast
Donald Karshan, Archipenko, Themes and Variations, 1908-1963 , Daytona Beach, Florida, 1989, p. 73, illustration of another cast
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre , PhD. Diss., University of Trier, Germany, 1997, no. 293, pp. 494-95, illustration of another cast
Alexander Archipenko
1887 - 1964
Birth of Venus
inscribed with the artist"s signature and dated 54 twice
bronze and marble
height: 12 ¼ in.
31 cm.
Cast in 1954 as number 5 in an edition of 6.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Frances Archipenko Gray.
