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JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 49
07.03.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 49 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
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£ 700 000 – 1 000 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Baigneuse III

signed, numbered and marked with the artist's thumbprint 'J Lipchitz 4⁄7' (on the top of the base)

bronze with brown patina

Height: 28 1⁄8 in. (71.4 cm.) including base

Conceived in stone in 1917 and later cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 7





Provenance

Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist.

Private collection, Hastings, USA, by 1958; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 303.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. Raynal, Lipchitz, Paris, 1920, p. 13 (stone version illustrated).

R. Vitrac, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1929, p. 33 (stone version illustrated).

A. M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, London, 1960, pp. 170 & 172 (stone version illustrated figs. XXVII & nos. 16 - 18, pp. 37, 104 & 105).

B. van Bork, Jacques Lipchitz, The Artist at Work, New York, 1966, p. 92 (another cast illustrated).

P. Wittlich, Jacques Lipchitz, Prague, 1966, p. 57 (stone version illustrated fig. 7b).

D. A. Stott, Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, New York, 1975 (other versions illustrated figs. 27, 28 & 29, pp. 285 & 286).

A. M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1975, nos. 73 - 75 (stone versions illustrated).

A. G. Wilkinson, Jacques Lipchitz, A Life in Sculpture, exh cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1989, no. 23, pp. 82 & 83 (another cast illustrated p. 82).

A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, no. 62, pp. 47, 147 & 216 (another cast illustrated pp. 47 & 147; stone version illustrated p. 47).

C. Pütz, Jacques Lipchitz, The First Cubist Sculptor, London, 2002, fig. 14, pp. 21 & 22 (another cast illustrated p. 22).



Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jacques Lipchitz, March - May 1958, no. 19; this exhibition later travelled to Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, May - July 1958; Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, August - September 1958; Dortmund, Museum Ostwall, October - December 1958; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, January - February 1959.

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Jacques Lipchitz, May - June 1959, no. 19, pl. IV.

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Museum of our Wishes, December 1963 - February 1964, no. 52, p. 29 (illustrated; dated '1917-18').
Artist:Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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