My Life with Alexander Archipenko

Frances Archipenko Gray, Frances Archipenko Gray

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Hirmer Verlag
18 July 2014

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Modernist sculptor Alexander Archipenko, (born 1887, Kiev; died 1964, New York City) has been called the “Picasso of Sculpture” for the Cubist elements he introduced to create a new way of looking at the human figure. This deeply personal biography written by his artist wife during his last eight years, casts a new light on this extremely productive, innovative, but little-known period of his career.

Despite an age difference of nearly fifty years, Frances Gray, a student at his school in Woodstock, New York, formed a deep and lasting companionship with Archipenko, leading to marriage in 1957. Gray paints a rounded picture of a complex and fascinating personality, part artist, part businessman, part spiritual seeker. When the art world turned away from modernism toward Abstract Expressionism, Archipenko’s work fell from critical favour. Archipenko was increasingly plagued by problems with forgeries and fraudulent authentications of his work, and the book casts a new light on his resulting volatile relationships with many dealers, museums and collectors.

By: Frances Archipenko Gray, Frances Archipenko Gray
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 830g
ISBN: 9783777422480
ISBN 10: 3777422487
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 18 July 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The acting president of the Archipenko Foundation, Frances Archipenko Gray is the leading expert in authenticating the work of Alexander Archipenko for collectors, curators, and auction houses. She lives in Woodstock, New York.