Alexander Archipenko
Women X

Artist Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian, active in France, Germany, and the United States, 1887–1964)Ukrainian, active in France, Germany, and the United States, 1887–1964

CultureAmerican

Titles

Women X
Frauen X
Sketchbook III

Datec. 1921–1923

PlaceBerlin, Germany

MediumWatercolor and graphite on wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/8 in. (28.3 × 21.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2009.1346

Non exposé

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Kunsthandlung Josef Altmann, Berlin]; purchased by Russian collector, July 1925; The Archipenko Foundation, Berlin; [Alexander Gray Associates, New York, by 2009]; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History"Refashioning the Figure: The Sketchbooks of Archipenko c. 1920," Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, September 27, 2003 - January 4, 2004.

“Alexander Archipenko: The Berlin Drawings,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 15–August 17, 2014.

"Alexander Archipenko: The Belin Sketchbooks," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Feb. 4, 2023-July 23, 2023 [Fourth Installation/Light-Sensitive Rotation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

in pencil on tissue interleaving, recto lower right corner: ARCHiPENKO

in pencil, recto lower left corner: Archipenko

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