Alexander Archipenko

Blue Dancer, 1913
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Bronze with black patina
42 inches
Inscribed, dated and numbered ‘Archipenko 13 8/8’  (on left leg)
Conceived in 1913 and cast during the artist’s lifetime

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Provenance
Perls Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 25 October 1977

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Exhibited
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition, 1967-1969, No.14
New York, Eaton Fine Art, Inc., Alexander Archipenko, 2005, No.2

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Literature
D. H. Karshan, Archipenko International Visionary, Washington D.C., 1969, p.36 (another cast illustrated: plate 27)
D. H. Karshan, Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tubingen, 1974, p.37 (another cast illustrated)
K. J. Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of The Early Works, 1908-1920, New York, 1977 (another cast illustrated: plate S47)
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenko’s Plastisches Oeuvres, Frankfert-am-Main, 1997, Vol II, no.43 (another cast illustrated p.95)

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SOLD