4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2012.

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Geometric Figure No. 1

Artist Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian, 1887-1964)

CultureUkrainian

Date1914

MediumBronze

DimensionsOverall: 20 x 3 x 4 in. (50.8 x 7.6 x 10.2 cm)
Base: 2 x 8 x 7 3/8 in. (5.1 x 20.3 x 18.7 cm)

InscribedSigned "Archipenko, 1914" lower base.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.2071

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 219

DescriptionThis is a small bronze sculpture of a standing geometric figure. Between the combination of free-form organic moldings and man-made geometric angles, the sculpture keeps the eye moving around the figure. The abstract figure gives hints at a female form but the organic, softer edges are often interrupted by sharp angles.

Label TextAlexander Archipenko Ukrainian, 1887–1964 Geometric Figure No. 1, 1914 Bronze Although highly abstracted, it is not hard to recognize Alexander Archipenko’s subject as a female body. As you walk around the sculpture and study it from different angles, graceful lines lead your eye through space. The figure almost seems to turn with you. From every direction, the artist shows us several different aspects of his sitter at once. Archipenko adopted this technique from Picasso and the other Cubist artists he met in Paris, where he moved in 1908. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2071 ProvenanceJeffrey Loria, New York; Gift to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1969; Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, 1969; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum, 1971. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Collection Conversations: Fractured Lens: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Influence," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 14, 2014 - February 22, 2015.Published ReferencesDennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 184.