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Alexander Archipenko
Flat Torso, 1914.
Polished Bronze
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 61,920 / $ 71,827 (incl. surcharge)
210
Alexander Archipenko
Flat Torso, 1914.
Polished Bronze
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,800 Sold:
€ 61,920 / $ 71,827 (incl. surcharge)
Alexander Archipenko
1887 - 1964
Flat Torso. 1914.
Polished Bronze.
With the signature and the date on the reverse of the plinth. Height: 38.1 cm (15 in). Height incl. base: 49 cm (19,2 in).
Lifetime cast, executed before 1947. [AW].
• Lifetime cast.
• Reduced bronze of timeless elegance.
• Archipenko elevates the relationship between sculpture and space, volume and line, to the decisive criterion.
• The years up to around 1923 were Archipenko's most prolific period.
• Archipenko's sculptures are among the most innovative expressions of avant-garde plastic art.
• Other copies of this “Flat Torso” are in renowned collections, including those of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin..
PROVENANCE: Collection of Mr. & Ms. Otho de Vilbiss, Florida/USA (acquired from the artist in 1947, until 1977: Sotheby's).
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart (acquired from the above in 1977).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1978).
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart (since 2008, purchased from the above).
EXHIBITION: Skulpturen aus sieben Jahrhunderten, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, 1978(with illustration).
Klassische Moderne – eine Auswahl, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, November 25, 2024–February 28, 2025, cat. pp. 4–5 (with illustration).
LITERATURE: Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko. Son oeuvre, Berlin 1923, catalogue number 20 (copy in marble).
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenko's plastisches Oeuvre. Vol. 2: Catalogue raisonné, Frankfurt am Main 1997, catalogue number 59 (copy in marble).
The work is listed in the catalogue raisonné on the official website of the Alexander Archipenko Foundation under catalogue raisonné no. “s.14-02” and work no. “5554”.
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(selection)
Ivan Goll, Archipenko, New York 1920, p. 2 (with illustration, marble copy).
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko. Fifty creative years. 1908-1958, New York 1960 (with ill. pl. 205 and 206, different copies).
Albert E. Elsen, Origin of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York 1974, p. 111 (with ill. plate 132, different copy).
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tübingen 1974, p. 33 (different copy).
Katherina J. Michelsen, Archipenko, A Study of Early Works, 1908-1920, New York 1977, p. 175 (with ill. pl. 49, different copy).
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, October 21, 1977, lot 318 (with ill.).
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Danville Kentucky 1985, cat. no. 26a-c, p. 58, p. 74f. (different copies).
1887 - 1964
Flat Torso. 1914.
Polished Bronze.
With the signature and the date on the reverse of the plinth. Height: 38.1 cm (15 in). Height incl. base: 49 cm (19,2 in).
Lifetime cast, executed before 1947. [AW].
• Lifetime cast.
• Reduced bronze of timeless elegance.
• Archipenko elevates the relationship between sculpture and space, volume and line, to the decisive criterion.
• The years up to around 1923 were Archipenko's most prolific period.
• Archipenko's sculptures are among the most innovative expressions of avant-garde plastic art.
• Other copies of this “Flat Torso” are in renowned collections, including those of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin..
PROVENANCE: Collection of Mr. & Ms. Otho de Vilbiss, Florida/USA (acquired from the artist in 1947, until 1977: Sotheby's).
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart (acquired from the above in 1977).
Private collection, southern Germany (acquired from the above in 1978).
Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart (since 2008, purchased from the above).
EXHIBITION: Skulpturen aus sieben Jahrhunderten, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, 1978(with illustration).
Klassische Moderne – eine Auswahl, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart, November 25, 2024–February 28, 2025, cat. pp. 4–5 (with illustration).
LITERATURE: Hans Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko. Son oeuvre, Berlin 1923, catalogue number 20 (copy in marble).
Anette Barth, Alexander Archipenko's plastisches Oeuvre. Vol. 2: Catalogue raisonné, Frankfurt am Main 1997, catalogue number 59 (copy in marble).
The work is listed in the catalogue raisonné on the official website of the Alexander Archipenko Foundation under catalogue raisonné no. “s.14-02” and work no. “5554”.
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(selection)
Ivan Goll, Archipenko, New York 1920, p. 2 (with illustration, marble copy).
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko. Fifty creative years. 1908-1958, New York 1960 (with ill. pl. 205 and 206, different copies).
Albert E. Elsen, Origin of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York 1974, p. 111 (with ill. plate 132, different copy).
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tübingen 1974, p. 33 (different copy).
Katherina J. Michelsen, Archipenko, A Study of Early Works, 1908-1920, New York 1977, p. 175 (with ill. pl. 49, different copy).
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, October 21, 1977, lot 318 (with ill.).
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Danville Kentucky 1985, cat. no. 26a-c, p. 58, p. 74f. (different copies).
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