Art Collections Online
Madonna of the Rocks
ARCHIPENKO, Alexander (1887 - 1964)
© ARS, NY and DACS, London 2002
Date: 1912
Media: bronze
Size: 52.1 cm
Acquired: 1967; Purchase
Accession Number: NMW A 2513
Archipenko studied in his home city of Kiev and in Moscow before moving to Paris in 1908. There he shared a studio with Modigliani and Gaudier-Brzeska. He lived in Berlin in 1921-23 before emigrating to the United States. This cast is one of an edition of six bronzes from an original plaster (Museum of Modern Art, New York) which once belonged to Fernand Leger. One of Archipenko's most powerful early works, it fuses figures and base in a machine-like structure of interlocking geometric shapes.
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.