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| Alexander Archipenko Suzanne 1909 limestone Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Alexander Archipenko Walking Woman 1912 bronze Denver Art Museum |
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| Alexander Archipenko Collage 1913 collage and gouache on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Alexander Archipenko Carrousel Pierrot 1913 painted plaster Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Alexander Archipenko Medrano II 1913-14 painted tin, wood, glass and oilcloth Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Alexander Archipenko Geometric Figure no. 1 1914 bronze Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Alexander Archipenko La Lutte 1914 bronze Milwaukee Art Museum |
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| Alexander Archipenko Statue on Triangular Base 1914 bronze Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Alexander Archipenko Standing Woman 1915 bronze Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Alexander Archipenko Woman with Hat 1916 painted relief (papier-mâché, wood, metal, gauze) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alexander Archipenko Standing Figure 1916 bronze Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Alexander Archipenko Portuguese 1916 painted terracotta Saint Louis Art Museum |
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| Alexander Archipenko Striding Soldier 1917 bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alexander Archipenko Figure 1917 gouache on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Alexander Archipenko Figure 1917 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alexander Archipenko Figure 1917 watercolor and gouache on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Alexander Archipenko Standing Woman 1920 painted relief of papier-mâché and wood Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Alexander Archipenko Figurative Composition 1921 lithograph (as published in the Leipzig magazine, Genius) Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alexander Archipenko Figurative Composition 1921 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alexander Archipenko Standing Woman 1921 lithograph Kunstmuseum, The Hague |
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| Alexander Archipenko Standing Woman 1921 lithograph Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Alexander Archipenko Mourning Women ca. 1925 photograph (taken by the artist of his sculpture) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alexander Archipenko Glorification of Beauty 1925 silvered brass Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Alexander Archipenko Arabian ca. 1930-40 terracotta Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| Alexander Archipenko Yellow and Black 1938 painted terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Alexander Archipenko Seated Draped Figure 1948 gouache on paper Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Fable
We had, each of us, a set of wishes.
The number changed. And what we wished –
that changed also. Because
we had, all of us, such different dreams.
The wishes were all different, the hopes all different.
And the disasters and catastrophes, always different.
In great waves they left the earth,
even the one that is always wasted.
Waves of despair, waves of hopeless longing and heartache.
Waves of the mysterious wild hungers of youth, the dreams of childhood.
Detailed, urgent; once in a while, selfless.
All different, except of course
the wish to go back. Inevitably
last or first, repeated
over and over –
So the echo lingered. And the wish
held us and tormented us
though we knew in our own bodies
it was never granted.
We knew, and on dark nights, we acknowledged this.
How sweet the night became then,
once the wish released us,
how utterly silent.
– Louise Glück (2001)