Alexander Archipenko
Women IV

Women IV

© Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Women IV
Women IV
ArtistUkrainian, active in France, Germany, and the United States, 1887–1964
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Women IV
  • Frauen IV
  • Sketchbook III
Datec. 1921–1923
PlaceBerlin, Germany
MediumWatercolor and graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 1/16 × 8 3/8 in. (28.1 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2009.1340
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
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 purple pencil, verso upper right corner: 4
in pencil, on lower right corner of tissue interleaving: ARCHiPENKO
in red watercolor, recto lower right corner: Archipenko

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