Archipenko: International Visionary
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. Item #1567
A major early retrospective monograph on Alexander Archipenko (1887–1964), one of the pioneering sculptors of Cubism and a central figure in the Ukrainian and international avant-garde. This Smithsonian-sponsored volume helped solidify Archipenko’s institutional recognition in the United States and documents key works from his Russian, French, German, and American periods.
116 pages of text with 4 color plates and 178 plates and illustrations. Quarto (approx. 10 x 9 in.). Publisher’s blue cloth boards in original illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece: Le Groupe, 1963, lithograph (from “Les Formes Vivantes”). Front and back endpapers with photographic portraits of Archipenko (New York, 1925; Woodstock, circa 1930). Edited by Donald H. Karshan; Preface by S. Dillon Ripley; Foreword by David W. Scott; Essay by Guy Habasque.
Price: $150.00