Collection as a “Double Portrait”: Alexander Archipenko Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Art

The collection of Alexander Archipenko’s works at the Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Art is unique in two respects: it represents the most extensive museum holding from his early period, and its own history unfolds as a compelling art-historical investigation. Tracing the provenance of the collection makes it possible, on the one hand, to reconstruct the formative phase of Archipenko’s artistic development, and on the other, to illuminate the dramatic vicissitudes in the history of European collecting in the 20th century.