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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alexander Archipenko, Boxers, conceived 1913/1914, cast 1964

Alexander Archipenko Ukraine, 1887-1964

Boxers, conceived 1913/1914, cast 1964
Bronze
59.7 x 41.9 x 40.6 cm
Edition of 9
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Archipenko exhibited a painted plaster of Boxers in 1914. It was purchased by Alberto Magnelli, and is now in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Before his immigration...
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Archipenko exhibited a painted plaster of Boxers in 1914. It was purchased by Alberto Magnelli, and is now in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Before his immigration to the United States in 1923, Archipenko stored a second painted plaster with friends Zina and Jean Verdier. Archipenko retrieved the plaster in 1960 and used it as the model for the bronze edition. The edition was completed under the supervision of his estate.

This work is recorded in the Archipenko Foundation with the work no. 2861.
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Provenance

Frances Archipenko Gray, 1964;
Private collection, 2015 (acquired from above).

Exhibitions

Amsterdam, De Onafhankelijken, 3de Internationale, Beeldende Kunstenaars, 1914, checklist no. 11 (plaster);
Paris, , Champs de Mars, Salon des Indépendants, 1914, checklist no. 85 (plaster);
Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Alexander Archipenko Exhibition, 1962, no. 11 (another bronze);

Vienna, Schweizergarten, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Die Plastiken, no. 12, illustrated (another bronze);
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Roots of Abstract Art in America 1910-1930, 1965-1966, no. 1 (another bronze);
Los Angeles, , UCLA Art Museum, Alexander Archipenko: A Memorial Exhibition (tour), no. 22, illustrated (another bronze);

Paris, , Musée Rodin, Archipenko International Visionary (tour), 1969, no. 21, illustrated (another bronze);

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Selected Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1969, p. 91, illustrated (another bronze);

New York, , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Archipenko: The Parisian Years (tour), 1970-1972, checklist no. 12 (another bronze);
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Pioneers of Modern Sculpture, 1973, no. 51 (another bronze);

Philadelphia, , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Futurism and the International Avant-Garde. 1980-1981, no. 83, illustrated (another bronze);

Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, The Machine Age in America, 1918 - 1941 (tour), 1986-1987, checklist no. 159 (this exemple);

Washington, National Gallery of Art, Alexander Archipenko: A Centennial Tribute (tour), 1986-1987, no. 14, illustrated (another bronze);
New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, Alexander Archipenko: The Creative Process, 1991, no. 7, illustrated (this exemple);

Montreal, Landau Fine Art, Millennium Exhibition: 20th Century Masters, p. 71, illustrated (this exemple);

New York, The Ukrainian Museum, Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity, 2005, no. 15, illustrated (this exemple);

State College, Palmer Museum of Art, Archipenko: A Modern Legacy (tour), 2015, (this exemple);
New York, Eykyn Maclean, Alexander Archipenko: Space Encircled, 9 November - 14 December 2018, no. 4, p. 51, illustrated (this exemple).

Literature

G. Apollinaire, [untitled article]. Les Soirées de Paris, no. 25, June 15, 1914, illustrated (plaster);
H. Hildebrandt, Alexander Archipenko, Berlin 1923, plate 11 (plaster), illustrated;
A. Archipenko, Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York 1960, plates 137 - 138, illustrated (terracotta and plaster);

A. E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, New York 1974, p. 172, illustrated (plaster);
K. Michaelsen, Archipenko: A Study of the Early Works 1908-1920, Doctoral Dissertation, New York and London 1977, no. S53, illustrated (plaster);
A. H. Barr, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 1929-1967, New York 1977, pp. 418 - 519 (another bronze);
A. Barth, Alexander Archipenkos plastisches Oeuvre, Teile I und II, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Trier 1997, no. 57, illustrated (plaster).

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