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Alexander Archipenko has been called the “Picasso of sculpture”, at the experimental forefront for bringing elements of Cubism to bear on the sculptural form. In My Life with Alexander Archipenko, Frances Archipenko Gray, with whom the artist shared the final years of his life, paints a rounded and deeply personal picture of Archipenko. Gray came to know Archipenko at his art school in Woodstock, New York. Despite a nearly fifty-year age difference, teacher and student developed a deep and lasting companionship that led to marriage in 1960. As the art world shifted its interest away from Modernism toward Abstract Expressionism. Achipenko’s work fell from critical favor. Yet nothing could stop the self-confident iconoclast, and Archipenko continued to create, exhibit, and promote his work. The volume presents for the first time the fascinating man behind the work and puts forward a compelling case for his continued importance.
