Address: 18 Impasse de Maine, Paris 14e

Participates with Brancusi and Duchamp-Villon at exhibition at the Mánes Fine Arts Association in Prague, where he shows five sculptures.

Solo exhibition in Halle, Germany, organized by Der Sturm.

Presents sculptures Carrousel Pierrot, Boxing, Gondolier and Médrano at the Salon des Indépendants.

“As for my own work, the geometric character of three-dimensional sculptures (e.g., Boxers, 1913, Gondolier, 1914) is due to the extreme simplification of form and not to Cubist dogma. I did not take from Cubism, but added to it.” –Alexander Archipenko

Caricatures of works presented at Salon des Indépendants appear in “Le Bonnet Rouge.”

The Italian painter Alberto Magnelli purchases three sculptures, now collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Apollinaire reviews the Salon and praises Archipenko’s work in L’Intransigeant (March 2, 1914): “Le Salon des Indépendants.”

April 13 - May 25: Futurists invite him to participate at the Esposizione Libera Futurista Internazionale in Rome.

May 16 - June 7: Salon des Indépendants, Brussels

Creates first sculpto-paintings. Develops sculptural elements of color, the void, concave and convex, and geometric forms further.

“Archipenko challenged the traditional understanding of sculpture. It was generally monochromatic at the time. His pieces were painted in bright colors. Instead of accepted materials such as marble, bronze or plaster, he used mundane materials such as wood, glass, metal, and wire. His creative process did not involve carving or modeling in the accepted tradition but nailing, pasting and tying together, with no attempt to hide nails, junctures or seams. His process parallels the visual experience of cubist painting.” -Juan Gris

August 1: Germany declares war against France and Russia. Many artists leave Paris and move to the South of France. Archipenko spends the war years (1914 - 1918) in Cimiez, near Nice, at Château Valrose. The group of artists living in Nice includes Ferat, Tsuguharu Foujita, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Morgan Russel, Chaim Soutine, and Leopold Survage.


Develops La Vie Humaine, a cubist play.

Berlin, publication of Der Sturm Bilderbuch II: Alexander Archipenko, with 25 illustrations


Creates Vase Woman I.

Correspondence with Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl Group

Blaise Cendrars dedicates his poem “La tête” to Archipenko.