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Alexander Archipenko


Russian sculptor, born in Kiev, 1887; died in New York, 1964. After studying at the fine-arts school in Kiev, he moved to Paris in 1908 and became passionately interested in the research of Picasso and Braque. His Torso [1909] is considered the first Cubist sculpture, and his work from 1911 on puts him in the forefront of innovators. Archipenko's work is characterized by its disarticulation and perforation of volumes that are subsequently penetrated by space. In 1913 , he took part in the Armory Show, and, after directing an art school in Berlin from 1921 to 1923, he moved to the United States, where he taught at Washington University, the New Bauhaus in Chicago, and New York. His sculptropaintings from the important Medrano series, combining painted wood, metal, and glass, are among his most distinctive work.

New York: Museum of Modern Art
Paris: Musée National d'Art Moderne [p. 848]


[Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988.]











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