Whereas his early works show a predilection for the reduction of forms, throughout the 1910s Alexander Archipenko became increasingly interested in Cubism. He participated in several exhibitions alongside Juan Gris, Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp, among others. The tension between two and three dimensions in Archipenko’s work was perhaps best resolved in his sculpto-relief paintings, but his two-dimensional work nonertheless retains suggestions of this struggle. Here, in a portrait of his wife, Angelica Schmitz (1893–1957), the volumetric crosshatching of cheek, neck and shoulder against the outlines of nose, chin and hair call into play the dialogue of telescoping depth. Not long after the portrait was completed, the Archipenkos moved to New York, where Alexander opened an art school.
Details
- Artist Name: Alexander Archipenko (Russian/American, 1887-1964)
- Title: Angelica
- Date: 1922
- Medium: Drypoint on tan wove paper
- Dimensions: comp: 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (16.8 x 10.8 cm) ; sheet: 12 3/4 x 10 in. (32.4 x 25.4 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.255
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, 1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Abstract Art Show
- Mills College Art Gallery, 1939-10-19 to 1939-12-03
East Meets West: Russian Art from the 18th through the 20th Century
- Norton Simon Museum, 1987-10-01 to 1988-04-17
Thirty European Modernists
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29
European Modernists
- Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
Gaze: Portraiture After Ingres
- Norton Simon Museum, 2009-10-30 to 2010-04-05
- Karshan, Donald, Archipenko: The Sculpture and Graphic Art including a Print Catalogue Raisonné, 1974, no. 26
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 317 p. 133
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 358 pp. 352-353
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