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Madonna of the rocks
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.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2513
Creation/Production
ARCHIPENKO, Alexander
Date: 1912
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/2/1967
Measurements
Height
(cm): 52.1
Height
(in): 20
Material
bronze
Location
Gallery 16
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