JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973) - photo 1
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JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 229
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Lot 229 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 700 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Jeune fille à la tresse
signed and dated 'JLipchitz 14' (on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 32 5/8 in. (83 cm.)
Conceived in plaster in 1914 and cast in bronze in an edition of 7; this example from the first three cast in Paris before 1940




Provenance

The artist's estate.
Marlborough Fine Art, London, by whom acquired from the above.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above on 19 November 1973, and thence by descent.



Literature

R. Vitrac, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1929, p. 19 (another cast illustrated).
B. Colrat, 'Jacques Lipchitz' in La Renaissance, vol. 13, Paris, June 1930, p. 152.
J. Cassou, 'Contemporary Sculptors: vol. V, Lipchitz' in Horizon, vol. 14, no. 84, London, December 1946, p. 377.
M. Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947 (another cast illustrated).
E. Trier, Moderne Plastik, von Auguste Rodin bis Marino Marini, Berlin, 1954, p. 100 (another cast illustrated pl. 46).
I. Patai, Encounters, The Life of Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1961, no. 20, pp. 135, 145, 152 (another cast illustrated).
R. Gimpel, Journal d'un collectionneur. Marchand de tableaux, Paris, 1963, p. 430 (another cast illustrated).
B. Van Bork, Jacques Lipchitz, The Artist at Work, New York, 1966, p. 141 (plaster version illustrated p. 140).
H. H. Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in bronze, London, 1969, p. 6.
J. Lipchitz & H. H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 14, pp. XI, 18-19, 21 & 25 (another cast illustrated p. 21).
A. M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1975, p. 38.
N. Barbier, Lipchitz, Oeuvres de Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1978, no. 3, pp. 19 & 92 (plaster version illustrated pp. 18-19 & 93).
A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, The Paris Years 1910-1940, London, 1996, no. 20, p. 40 & 214 (another cast illustrated, pp. 40 & 123).
C. Pütz, Jacques Lipchitz, The First Cubist Sculptor, London, 2002, p. 4 (another cast illustrated on the front and rear flaps).



Exhibited

(possibly) London, Marlborough Fine Art, Jacques Lipchitz, Sculptures and drawings, May 1973, no. 3, p. 25 (another cast illustrated p. 37); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Marlborough Galerie, September 1973.
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