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Female Nude

Weiblicher Akt
Female Nude
Gesamtansicht, Vorderseite
Female Nude
Alexander Archipenko, Weiblicher Akt, um 1921, Bronze, 51,5 × 15 × 22 cm, Belvedere, Wien, Inv.-Nr. 2438
© Bildrecht, Wien 2026
Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien
This is the English text for C. Contact: Reproabteilung.

  • Female Nude

  • Datec. 1921
    • Artist Alexander Archipenko (1887 Kiew – 1964 New York)
  • Object typeSculpture
  • MediumBronze
  • Dimensions
    Objekt Maße: 51,5 × 15 × 22 cm
  • SignatureBez. an der Stütze: Archipenko
  • Inventory number2438
  • Location Currently not on display

  • The woman is standing bent forward, her right leg placed in front of her left. She is naked. Her body seems both strangely stretched and compressed, which makes it clear that Archipenko was not interested in reproducing natural proportions, but rather in an - ultimately abstract - liberty with shapes. In this “large form” without a real caesura like that usually provided by the waistline, the thighs merge into the torso, where the forms become more detailed and compact. The bent left arm, the small breasts, and the fingers are individual shapes that lead to a veritable “explosion of forms” in the context of the figure. This guides our gaze up to the head, where it is returned to its starting point by the figure’s lowered eyes. The woman’s body is truncated, meaning the limbs are intentionally omitted. For example, the right arm is missing and the figure is cut off below the knee by the stone base. As the support behind the figure suggests, this is an integral component of the artwork: the base and support have the same angular form and thus stand in intentional contrast to the undulating outline of the figure.
    • 1923 Ankauf vom Künstler
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