Alexander Archipenko
Torso in Space

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Artist Alexander Archipenko Ukrainian, 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

SCULPTURE

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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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

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