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Exhibition History"From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Feb. 1 - May 4 1997
"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, July 30 - Sept. 11, 1994
Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, a catalog of selections from the permanent collection published in 1985, cat. ref. p.p. 22, 23, b/w ill. pl. no.5, p.22
DMAC Bulletin, Nov. 1968
DMAC Special Bulletin, Oct. 1968
Archipenko, a pioneer of modern sculpture came into contact with the Cubists while attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1918. The representation of the human figure was subordinatd in his work. The formal composition of voids and solids is apparent in "Seated Figure".
Source: Bulletin, November 1968
Exhibition History"From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Feb. 1 - May 4 1997
"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, July 30 - Sept. 11, 1994
Published ReferencesDES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, a catalog of selections from the permanent collection published in 1985, cat. ref. p.p. 22, 23, b/w ill. pl. no.5, p.22
DMAC Bulletin, Nov. 1968
DMAC Special Bulletin, Oct. 1968
DimensionsOverall: 30 3/8 in. (77.2 cm)
Accession Number 1968.32
Classificationssculpture
CopyrightPublic Domain
InscriptionsArchipenko 1916 6/8 F Paris (near anat. back bottom edge)
Edition6/8
ProvenancePerls Galleries, New York; (Florence Cowles Kruidenier, Des Moines [purchased from the previous, 1968]); Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 1968]
