Alexander Archipenko
Untitled XVI

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

Untitled XVI
Sketchbook II

Datec. 1921–1923

PlaceBerlin, Germany

MediumGraphite on wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 18 1/16 × 12 3/16 in. (45.9 × 31 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund

Object number2009.1335

Not on view

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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, recto lower right corner: Archipenko

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