Lying Horizontal Figure 1957

Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964, Ukrainian/American)

Lying Horizontal Figure 1957

polychrome bronze
17.0 x 36.0 x 10.0 cm

signed and numbered to base of figure: Archipenko 3

 

Provenance:

The Estate of Alexander Archipenko, New York

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, 1972

Donald Karshan, New York

Rachel Adler Gallery, New York

Private collection, South Africa

Private collection, Sydney

Deutscher-Menzies, Melbourne, 15 June 2005, lot 32

Private collection, Sydney

Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 26

Company collection, Melbourne

Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, 19 June 2014, lot 61

Company collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 11 May 2017, lot 28

Company collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Archipenko: Recent Polychromes, Perls Galleries, New York, 14 October - 9 November 1957, cat.16 (another example)

Alexander Archipenko Bronzes, Perls Galleries, New York, 29 September - 24 October 1959, cat.26 (another example)

Archipenko, Kunstmuseum der Stadt, Düsseldorf, 4 November - December 1960, cat.61 (another example)

Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, touring to Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centre, Colorado Springs; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, New York; Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Washington University, St. Louis; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Chicago, 1967 - 1969, cat.55 (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.55, another example)

Archipenko: The American Years, 1923-1963, Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, 23 July - 15 August 1970, cat.25 (illus. exhibition catalogue, p.3, another example)

Archipenko, The Paris Years, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 16 January - 21 February 1971, cat.39 (another example)

Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, as Collected, Viewed, and Documented by Donald Karshan, The Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, 1985, cat.90 (illus. exhibition catalogue pp.151, 154, 162-163, another example)

Alexander Archipenko, Moderne Galerie des Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1986, cat.93 (illus. exhibition catalogue pp.194-195, another example)

Alexander Archipenko, Galeria Freites, Caracas, Venezuela, September - October 1991 (illus. exhibition catalogue p.30, another example)

Alexander Archipenko, Moderne Galerie des Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 17 October 2008 - 17 January 2009, cat.102 (illus. exhibition catalogue pp.164, 223, another example)

Alexander Archipenko: Sculptures, Galerie Thomas, Munich, 11 September - 31 October 2009 (illus. exhibition catalogue pp.58-59, another example)

Reference:

Coates, R. M., 'The Art Galleries, Shy Leader', The New Yorker, New York, 17 October 1959, p.144 (another example)

Archipenko, A., Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, Tekhne, New York, 1960, pl.130 (illus., another example)

Karshan, D., Archipenko, Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, Centre College and Indiana University Press, United States of America, 1985, pl.90a, 90b (illus., another example)

Barth, A., Alexander Archipenkos Plastisches Oeuvre, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 1997, cat.325, pp.552-553 (another example)

Gray, F. A., My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Hirmer, Munich, 2014, p.92, pl.38 (illus., another example)

Keiser, A., The Archipenko Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, The Archipenko Foundation, New York, 2018, [digital catalogue raisonné], cat.s.57-05, no.1373 (illus., this example)

Estimate: $50000 - 70000

Result Hammer: $48000