Alexander Archipenko
Torso in Space

Torso in Space

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

Torso in Space
Torso in Space
ArtistUkrainian, active in France, Germany, and the United States, 1887–1964
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Torso in Space
Date1936
MediumBronze
Dimensions8 7/8 × 26 7/8 × 6 in. (22.5 × 68.3 × 15.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Board of Governors of Rice University in grateful memory of Alice Pratt Brown
Object number84.290
Not on view

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Department
American Art
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, February 23—May 14, 1995. Travelled to: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, June 22 —September 10 199595; Wichita Art Museum, KS, October 19, 1995—January 7, 1996; National Academy of Design, New York, NY, October 15—May 5, 1996.

"American Made: 250 Years of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 7, 2012—January 2, 2013.

“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
Signed on obverse side at bottom right: "II Archipenko"

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