ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964) Madonna signed 'ARCHIPENKO' (on the back) white marble Height: 24 ¾ in. (62.8 cm.) Executed circa 1936
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964) Madonna signed 'ARCHIPENKO' (on the back) white marble Height: 24 ¾ in. (62.8 cm.) Executed circa 1936
Julie Andrews. Claire Ziegler, Chicago. Private collection, La Jolla (by 1960). Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles. Private collection, United Kingdom; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 October 1989, lot 73. François Privat (March 2001). Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 2004, lot 296. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
J.I.R. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1951, no. 104 (possibly another version illustrated, pl. 104; dated 1932). A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, no. 166 (another version illustrated, pls. 165-166). D.H. Karshan, ed., Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, p. 115, no. 53 (polychrome bronze version illustrated, pl. 120). A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Ph.D. diss., University of Trier, 1997, vol. 2, p. 412, no. 233 (another version illustrated, p. 413).
The Archipenko Foundation will include this work in their forthcoming catalogue raisonné of sculptures by Alexander Archipenko.
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