- Artist or Maker
- Alexander Archipenko
Russian Empire (now Ukraine), also active France, Germany, and the United States, 1887-1964 - Title
- Still Life with Book and Vase on Table
- Date Made
- 1918, cast 1960
- Medium
- Polychromed bronze, cast number 5/8
- Dimensions
- 18 × 13 3/4 in. (45.72 × 34.93 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2005.70.2
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
This dynamic relief is what Alexander Archipenko referred to as sculpto-painting, and accordingly it balances the dimensionality of sculpture with the compositional layering of Cubist painting. The Ukrainian-born artist, who moved to the United States in 1923, first created this still life in papier mâché, wood, and plaster. Concerned that these materials were prone to decay, he rendered the same composition in bronze more than four decades later, by which point he had developed specific chemical formulas for creating a variety of toned patinas.
Wall label, 2021.
- Provenance
The artist (1887-1964). [Zabriskie Gallery, New York]; sold in 1985 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
- Selected Bibliography
- 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.
