Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; Ukrainian: Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, romanized: Oleksandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; May 30 [O.S. May 18] 1887 – February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist, active in France and the United States.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He was one of the first to apply the principles of Cubism to architecture, analyzing human figure into geometrical forms.[7]
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Porfyrovych and the family name is Archipenko.
Alexander Archipenko
Among the public collections holding works by Alexander Archipenko are:
Archipenko's 14.5-foot (4.4 m) tall cubist statue of King Solomon is installed at the University of Pennsylvania campus. Archipenko began work on a smaller prototype of the statue in 1964, but died before the work was finished, leaving his wife to oversee its completion. The full-sized statue was completed in 1968 and was donated to the university in 1985.[19]
Le baiser (The Kiss), 1910
Portrait de Mme Kameneff
Venus, 1910–11
L'Héros (The Hero), ca.1912
Femme Marchant (Woman Walking), 1912
Dancers (Der Tanz), 1912, original plaster, 24 in. This first version of Dancers was illustrated on the front cover of The Sketch, 29 October 1913, London
Zwei Körper (Two Bodies), 1912–13
Roter Tanz (Danse rouge, Blue Dancer), 1912–13
Flat Torso, 1914
Sculpto-peinture
Alexander Archipenko, c.1920, Femme assise (Composition), 31.1 x 23.2 cm, gouache on paper
Femmes - Vases (Women - Vases), 1919
