Sale: 428 / Modern Art, Dec. 03./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 88

 

88
Alexander Archipenko
Small Reclining Torso, 1910.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 28,750 / $ 30,762

(incl. surcharge)
Small Reclining Torso. 1910.
Bronze with green patina.
Barth 18. Verso signed, dated and numbered. One of 8 copies. 14.5 x 19.8 x 17.2 cm (5.7 x 7.7 x 6.7 in). Base: 3 x 17,5 x 10,2 cm (1,1 x 6,8 x 4 in).
This version of the bronze was released by the artist's estate.

PROVENANCE: Rachel Adler Gallery, New York.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.

EXHIBITION: Biennial, Venice, 1920, cat. no. 27 (presumably different copy).
Kovler Gallery, Chicago, 1968, cat. no. 4 (with illu.) (presumably different copy).
Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, 1991, cat. no. 22 (with illu.).

LITERATURE: Katherine Janszky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works 1908-1920, New York, London, p.116, (with illu.).




88
Alexander Archipenko
Small Reclining Torso, 1910.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,050
Sold:
€ 28,750 / $ 30,762

(incl. surcharge)