Woman with Hat

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Woman with Hat

Ukraine, 1916
Sculpture
Wood, metal, papier-mâché, gauze, and oil paint
17 5/8 × 14 3/16 in. (44.77 × 36.04 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Loula D. Lasker Estate and Merle Oberon (M.86.130)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Label

Alexander Archipenko moved from Ukraine to Paris in 1908, and quickly began his association with the Cubists, finding in Cubism radical formal possibilities for sculpture....
Alexander Archipenko moved from Ukraine to Paris in 1908, and quickly began his association with the Cubists, finding in Cubism radical formal possibilities for sculpture. With the outbreak of World War I, Archipenko relocated to the south of France, where he developed his unique approach to sculpture, blending elements of Cubism with aspects of Russian Constructivism in a novel synthesis of painting and sculpture he called “sculpto-paintings.”

With its broad planes of vibrant color and surface pattern, Woman with Hat literally comes off the wall. By 1922, Archipenko declared these hybrid works to be his most important; today they are regarded as his most original contribution to modern sculpture. Only half of his forty sculpto-paintings have survived, and Woman with Hat is among the only examples in a United States museum.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Archipenko, Alexander.  Archipenko Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958.  New York: TEKHNE, 1960.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Archipenko, Alexander.  Archipenko Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958.  New York: TEKHNE, 1960.
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1988,  vol. 25-26, no. 12-1 (December, 1987-January, 1989).
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
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