At lower left: Archipenko 1/8 S6

A. Archipenko. Galerie Im Elker. St. Gallen, 1962, No. 26; A. Archipenko. Rome, Ente Premi Roma. Roma: Palazzo Barberini, 1963 (No. 54. Donna orientale con motivi lineari); Archipenko. International Visionary. Traveling European Exhibition from Smithsonian Insitute. 1969–1971, No. 73

Arkhipenko worked in bronze throughout his life. In his later years he turned away from the multicolored pieces made in the 1910s and 1920s. “Eastern” themes predominated in the later work. The outline of the draped female dancing figure is echoed in a number of sculptures and graphics of the late 1950s‒early 1960s (Shcherezade, Tsaritsa Savskaia, Prazdnichnoe [Festive]). The artist’s signature and the mark, 1/8, indicate that this copy was made while the artist was alive and that it is the first of a total of eight produced at the time.