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ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO
1887-1964
TURNING TORSO
Inscribed with the signature Archipenko II, numbered 1/8 O and dated 1921
Bronze, blue patina
height 28 1/2 in. 72.4 cm.
Conceived in 1921 and cast circa 1962. The Saarbruken catalogue notes that the edition was cast in the 1960s in an edition of 8 (numbers 5-8 were cast posthumously). The catalogue also describes the present work as aside from the edition of 8, and notes that the patina differs from the other examples.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Archipenko and dated March 26, 1962, in which he notes that the sign 'O' is unique to this cast.
Literature
Alexander Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years, 1908-1958, New York, 1960, illustration of a marble example
pl. 118
Alexander Archipenko, Exhibition Catalogue, U.C.L.A. Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 50
Donald H. Karshan, Archipenko: the Sculpture and Graphic Art, Tubingen, 1974, illustration of a marble example
p. 99
Alexander Archipenko, Exhibition Catalogue, Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums, Saarbrucken, 1986, this cast described p. 106, illustrations of two marble examples pp. 107 and 109