Woman | Alexander Archipenko

Alexander Archipenko

• Date1925
• TechniqueBronze
• Size37x9x9

A statue of a female figure whose gender-related characteristics are expressed in an esthetic, thin outline, which becomes wider, rounder and more pronounced in the pelvis and chest area. Artist Alexander Archipenko was strongly influenced by the cubist trend as a whole and, in particular by the works of Pablo Picasso whose principles he often applied when sculpting women without any true identity through the use of simplified forms. Archipenko paid equal attention to the protruding and sagging portions of his sculptures, as is clearly apparent in many parts of this female figure's body. Thus, for example, the right breast is sagging whereas the left one if protruding; the right leg is protruding whereas the left one is flat.