JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 74
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 900 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1422999
Lot 74 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Estimate value
$ 900 000 – 1 200 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Baigneuse
signed, numbered and marked with artist's thumbprint 'Lipchitz 3/7' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 34 7/8 in. (88.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1917; this bronze version cast by 1957




Provenance

Fine Art Associates (Otto Gerson), New York (by 1957).
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (acquired from the above, 1959).
By descent from the above to the present owners.



Literature

K. Kuh, The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, New York, 1962, p. 156 (another cast illustrated, pl. 71).
G. Nordland, "Jacques Lipchitz: Lively Legend" in Artforum, vol. I, no. 12, June 1963, p. 38 (illustrated, p. 39).
J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, pp. 46 and 49 (another cast illustrated, p. 47).
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, vol. I, pp. 47 and 216, no. 64 (another cast illustrated, p. 47).



Exhibited

New York, Fine Arts Associates, Jacques Lipchitz: Thirty-Three Semi-Automatics 1955-1956 and Earlier Works 1915-1928, March 1957, no. 40.
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Denver Art Museum; Fort Worth Art Center; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Des Moines Art Center and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Selected by the Artist, March 1963-June 1964, p. 62, no. 23 (illustrated).
Providence, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 93 (illustrated).
The Katonah Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz, July-September 1969.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p.172 (illustrated in color, p. 173, pl. 47).
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