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Artist or Maker: Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964)

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Provenance: Olga Hauser, New York, by whom acquired from the artist circa 1943, and thence by descent to the present owners.

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Literature: I. Goll, Archipenko, New York, 1920 (marble version illustrated p. 2).
I. Goll, T. Daubler & B. Cendrars, Archipenko Album, Potsdam, 1921, no. 1 (another cast illustrated on frontispiece).
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin, 1923, p. 13 (marble version illustrated pl. 20).
A. Elsen, Origins of modern sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York, 1974, pp. 111-112 (another cast illustrated pl. 132).
K. Janzsky Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works, 1908-1963, New York, 1977, p. 34 (another cast illustrated pl. 49).
D. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, nos. 26a-c, p. 58 (the variants illustrated pp. 74-75).

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