Two Female Nudes

ca. 1922

Alexander Archipenko, Artist Bauhaus, Weimar and Mueller, and Company, Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title Two Female Nudes

Artwork Date ca. 1922

Makers Alexander Archipenko (Artist) American, 1887-1964 Bauhaus, Weimar and Mueller, and Company (Publisher) German

Medium Lithograph printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Image: 14 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches (36.8 × 29.2 cm) Sheet: 19 3/8 × 13 1/4 inches (49.2 × 33.7 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1985.54

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Signed Signed, in pencil, lower left: Archipenko

Marks Embossed, lower left, Bauhaus signet, Sternenmannchen: STAATLICHES BAUHAUS WEIMAR

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Cleo K. Gruber;
1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Wingler, H.M. Die Mappenwerke, Neue Europaische Graphik. Mainz and Berlin, 1965, p. 151 (pl. 48) [IV/1].

Karshan, D. Archipenko, The Sculpture and Graphic Art, Including A Print Catalogue Raisonné. Tubingen, 1974, pp. 104-105 (ill.), cat. no. 25.

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Alexander Archipenko, Two Female Nudes, ca. 1922, lithograph printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber, F1985.54.