ID 1426125
Lot 346 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
Homme à la guitare
signed, numbered, stamped with foundry mark and with artist's thumbprint 'MODERN. ART. FDRY. N.Y. 3/7 JLipchitz' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 22 ½ in. (57.1 cm.)
Length: 22 in. (56 cm.)
Conceived in 1925; this bronze version cast circa 1962
Provenance
Kasser Art Foundation, Montclair, New Jersey (probably acquired from the artist, by May 1971).
Private collection, Los Angeles.
Anon. sale, Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 12 June 1986, lot 2385.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, pp. 69 and 219, no. 173 (another cast illustrated, p. 69).
Exhibited
New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, With a French Accent: A Salute to the Alliance Française from the Kasser Art Foundation and Other New Jersey Collectors, May-June 1971, no. 35 (illustrated).
California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Collector's Choice Exhibition: Selected Works of Sculpture and Painting Lent by the Kasser Art Foundation, January-February 1972, no. 21 (illustrated).
San Francisco, Montgomery Gallery, European Modernists: 1910-1940, January-March 1990, no. 9 (illustrated in color).
| Artist: | Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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