- Artist or Maker
- Alexander Archipenko
Russian Empire (now Ukraine), also active France, Germany, and the United States, 1887-1964 - Title
- Woman with Hat
- Date Made
- 1916
- Medium
- Wood, metal, papier-mâché, gauze, and oil paint
- Dimensions
- 17 5/8 × 14 3/16 in. (44.77 × 36.04 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.86.130
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
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.
- Provenance
The artist (1887-1964), Paris and Berlin, until 1923. [Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich]. [Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York]; sold toMr. and Mrs. Morris W. Getler, Roslyn Harbor, NY in 1970; [Zabriskie Gallery, New York]; [sold on January 15, 1984 to Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York]; [Christie’s, New York November 12, 1985 Lot 57]; John J. Nicholson, Los Angeles; given in 1986 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.
