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JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 355
13.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 355 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
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$ 250 000 – 350 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Femme couchée à la guitare
signed, numbered and with artist's thumbprint 'Lipchitz 5/7' (on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 28 ¾ in. (72.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1928; this bronze version cast by 1959




Provenance

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



Literature

M. Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947 (basalt version illustrated).
A.C. Ritchie, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, New York, 1952, p. 229 (basalt version illustrated, p. 140).
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1960, p. 174, no. 44 (basalt version illustrated).
R. Goldwater, What is Modern Sculpture?, New York, 1969, p. 144 (limestone version illustrated, p. 21).
J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, p. 103 (basalt version illustrated, fig. 83).
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1975, pp. 38 and 171, no. XL (stone version illustrated, p. 39 and pl. 44).
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, p. 80, no. 215 (another cast illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Fine Art Associates (Otto M. Gerson), Jacques Lipchitz, March 1957, no. 44 (illustrated).
New York, Fine Art Associates (Otto M. Gerson), Sculpture 1880-1957, December 1957-January 1958, no. 19 (illustrated).
New York, Otto Gerson Gallery and Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, November 1961-February 1962, no. 25 (illustrated).
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 95 (illustrated).
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, no. 46 (illustrated in color; illustrated in situ, p. 12).
Artist:Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art, Avant-garde
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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