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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2023 | Walking Torso | 8 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
sculpture
36.2 cm (14.25 in)
bronze
inscribed Archipenko , dated 63 and numbered 8/8F
Archipenko Associates (acquired in 1967)
Frances Archipenko Gray (acquired in 1972)
Steed Fine Arts (Marguerite Hoffmann Steed), Texas (acquired from the above in 1987)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1994)
Sotheby"s, New York, 14 May 2021, lot 95 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin (and traveling), Archipenko, International Visionary , 1969-1970, no. 76, p. 102, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Archipenko: The American Years, 1923-1963, 1970, no. 28
Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, Archipenko at Pace , 1973, no. 25, illustration of another cast
Werner Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Kunst, Berlin 1980, no. 180, pp. 116-29 and 269-81, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum (and traveling), Alexander Archipenko , 1986, no. 108, pp. 224-25, illustration of the plaster version
Exh. Cat., Caracas, Galeria Freites, Alexander Archipenko , 1991, p. 31
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral dissertation, University of Trier 1997, no. 351, p. 606-07, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum, Alexander Archipenko , 2008-2009, no. 117, pp. 182-83, illustration of the plaster version and p. 226
Frances Archipenko Gray, My Life with Alexander Archipenko . Munich 2014, fig. 65, p. 175, illustration of the plaster version
Archipenko Foundation, ed., Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné , 2018, fig. S.63-02, http://archipenkocr.org/ (accessed on 29 August 2023)
Property from an Important New York Collection
Alexander Archipenko
1887 - 1964
Walking Torso
inscribed Archipenko , dated 63 and numbered 8/8F
bronze
height: 14 ¼ in. 35.8 cm.
Conceived in 1963 and cast in 1967 by the Sheidow Foundry,
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Frances Archipenko Gray.
