Alexander Archipenko Ukraine, 1887-1964
Title Unknown (Movement), circa 1913
Collage, pastel and pencil on brown paper
54.5 x 35.5 cm
This work on paper is recorded in the Archipenko Foundation with the work number 5896 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works on paper. Early...
This work on paper is recorded in the Archipenko Foundation with the work number 5896 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works on paper.
Early provenance entries are pending further research. A document from 1934 notes that Falk sold a collage to Cassirer Gallery (no date of the transaction mentioned). And, a different reference mentions that Marcus Oliver acquired a collage from Darius Talyarken in 1939.
The Foundation records just ten known collages by Archipenko from 1912-1913. Two are with the Archipenko Foundation, including the present work, four are in museums (Museum of Modern Art, New York (ID786); Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid (ID736); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (ID802); and Philadelphia Museum of Art (ID792) and three in private collections.
Early provenance entries are pending further research. A document from 1934 notes that Falk sold a collage to Cassirer Gallery (no date of the transaction mentioned). And, a different reference mentions that Marcus Oliver acquired a collage from Darius Talyarken in 1939.
The Foundation records just ten known collages by Archipenko from 1912-1913. Two are with the Archipenko Foundation, including the present work, four are in museums (Museum of Modern Art, New York (ID786); Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid (ID736); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (ID802); and Philadelphia Museum of Art (ID792) and three in private collections.
Provenance
S.G. Falk, Geneva (inscribed 'S.G. Falk, Geneve' on the verso);
Marcus Oliver, London;
Henry Clay, 1940s (acquired from above);
Private collection (by descent);
Private collection (acquired from above);
Frances Archipenko Gray, 2010 (acquired from above);
Private collection, 2015 (acquired from above).