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Act (Fantasy)

1930s
51 × 32.4 cm
Gray paper, pastel, graphite

Atypical drawing of a famous Ukrainian sculptor, inventor of "archipenture", artist and art theorist Alexander Archipenko. The drawing is made on gray paper with wide white pastels with graphite accents. Up to the date, the work of the master has no analogues. In general, it dates back to the 1930s, when the artist lived and worked in the United States. In addition to the generic name "Act", the museum documents include an additional title of the work - "Fantasy".

Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.