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A modern after sculpture in the style of Alexander Archipenko. The original of this sculpture was created in 1914. This sculpture, which is entitled "Geometric Statuette," is cast with bronze and measures 27 inches in height.

An energetic teacher and pioneering modernist sculptor of abstract human forms, Alexander Archipenko created one of the first multi-media sculptures, composing it of wood, glass, and wire. He experimented continuously with the effects of negative and positive space. He began his career with a Cubist style and then turned to simplified, abstract shapes with hollowed out parts of the bodies, especially where one might expect curves. In 1921, he moved to Berlin where he opened another art school and in 1923 immigrated to the United States and founded an art school in New York City as well as other locations including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Woodstock.

He became an American citizen, living out the remainder of his life in New York, but he taught short courses in numerous schools around the country including the Universities of Kansas City, Delaware, Washington, and Oregon. Most of Archipenko's work in German museums was confiscated by the Nazis in their purge of "degenerate art." In 1947, he produced the first of his sculptures that are illuminated from within. He accompanied an exhibition of his work throughout Germany in 1955--56, and at this time began his book Archipenko: Fifty Creative Years 1908--1958, published in 1960. Archipenko died on February 25, 1964, in New York.