Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964) was born in Russia but
moved to Paris in 1908 where he associated with artists like Pablo Picasso and
Georges Braque. After a few exhibitions at the Salon d’Automne and with the Indépendants,
he founded his own school at the age of 24. He is often referred to as the “Picasso
of sculpture” because he was a leader in bringing Cubism to sculpture. He
continuously explored the female figure and its relations to space, overlapping
and interlocking solids and voids that showed different views of it all
together. Archipenko moved to the United States in 1923 and became a citizen in
1929.
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| Walking, 1914-15 |
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| Statuette, 1916 |
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| White Torso, c1920 |
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| Arabian, 1930-40 |
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| Lying Horizontal, 1957 |
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