Alexander Archipenko

Ukrainian/American, 1887-1964
Torso in Space, circa 1935
Etched Archipenko VI on the bottom
Polished terracotta with painted wood base
7 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (19.1 x 52.1 x 6.4 cm) without the base

Provenance:
Gift of the artist to Chicago Art Critic C. J. Bulliet
Thence by descent

Exhibited:
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1936
Chicago, Kuh Gallery, Exhibition by Archipenko, 1937-1938
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Forty-Eight Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, 1937-1938, cat. no. 250
Chicago, Kuh Gallery, First Group Exhibit at Katherine Kuh Gallery, 1937
New York, Milch Galleries, Special Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, 1937, cat. no. 1
Chicago, Kuh Gallery, Alexander Archipenko, 1939
Omaha, Nebraska, University of Omaha, Alexander Archipenko in Retrospection: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture (tour), 1939
New York, Nierendorf Gallery, Alexander Archipenko Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, 50th One Man Show in U.S.A., Works from 1909-1944, 1944 cat. no. 19
New York, Associated American Artists, Forty Years of Inventive Sculpture by Archipenko, 1948, cat. no. 8
New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, Archipenko 110th Exhibition, 50 Years Production, 1954, cat. no. 60
Darmstadt, Germany, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Alexander Archipenko Plastik Marleri Zeichnungen Druckgraphik (tour), 1955, cat. no. 27
New York, Lynn Kottler Galleries, 16 Contemporaries, 1955
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, Twentieth Century Sculpture, 1962, cat. no. 1
Chicago, Kovler Gallery, Archipenko: Content and Continuity 1908-1963, 1968, cat. no. 62
Danville, Kentucky, The Norton Center for the Arts, Center College, Archipenko: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1908-1963, As Collected, Viewed, and Documented by Donald Karshan, 1985, cat. no. 74 (ills p. 138)
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: Terra Cotta Sculptures, 2000, cat. no. 10 (ills)
West Palm Beach, Florida, Eaton Fine Art, Process and Exploration: Recurring Motifs in the Work of Alexander Archipenko, 2002-2003, cat. no. 7 (ills p. 16)
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Cast and Carved American Sculpture 1850-1950, 2004 (ills. p. 143)

Literature:
Werner Schnell, Der Torso als Problem der Modernen Kunst (Berlin: Mann, 1980), 116-129, 269-281, plate no. 182

This series is registered under Alexander Archipenko Catalogue Raisonné under catalogue number 36-15A, work no. 6478.

(with base 10 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches)