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Image of Untitled (Construction)

Alexander Archipenko
American, born Ukraine, 1887–1964

Untitled (Construction)

1921
From the portfolio, Alexandre Archipenko: Dreizehn Steinzeichnungen

Object Type: Print
Dimensions:
18 1/2 in. x 11 5/8 in. (46.99 cm x 29.53 cm)
Medium and Support: Color lithograph on paper
Accession Number: 2007.0003.0002

Credit Line: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association Purchase and Gift of Margaret Lynne Ausfeld in memory of Adolph "Bucks" Weil, Jr.
Copyright: © Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society, (ARS), New York


Innovative artist Alexander Archipenko (American, born Ukraine, 1887–1964) was a seminal figure in early twentieth-century art, renowned for his achievements in modern sculpture. Archipenko found inspiration in the works of Cubists and Italian Futurists, forging new ground by combining traditional and nontraditional materials. His signature "sculpto-paintings," a fusion of both painting and sculpture, and his technique of incorporating voids within his works proved his pioneering, avant-garde approach. Archipenko also embraced printmaking and he worked in a variety of print techniques. Prints were often studies for his three-dimensional pieces or refinements of his completed sculptures. This is often how Archipenko worked. He returned to earlier ideas and created a symbiotic relationship between his drawings, prints, and sculptural works. As he explored his ideas in one medium it would spur ideas for exploration in another format. In 1921, Archipenko created the portfolio, "Alexandre Archipenko: Dreizehn Steinzeichnungen" (translated as thirteen stone carvings, or thirteen lithographs) with the publisher Verlag Ernst Wasmuth in Berlin. This grouping of prints includes Archipenko’s first foray with color in the graphic arts. Of the thirteen images in this portfolio, at least six have a direct correlation to either drawings or sculptures demonstrating the range of his concerns, from the female nude to Cubism. For example, "Construction "relates closely, and is likely based, upon his painted wooden relief construction, "Standing Woman," from 1918.

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