JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Lot 524
29.06.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 15 000
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ID 792576
Lot 524 | JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)

Miracle II

signed, numbered and marked with the artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 2⁄7' (on the back foot)

bronze with golden brown patina

height: 30 1⁄8 in. (76.5 cm.)

Conceived in 1948, and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 7





Provenance

Private collection, Maryland; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1995, lot 364.

Alan Dershowitz & Carolyn Cohen, Massachusetts, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2012, lot 504.

Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, 1960 (another cast illustrated pl. 90).

B. van Bork, The Artist at Work, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1966, p. 174 (illustrated; dated '1947').

A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, The American Years, 1941-1973, New York, 2000, no. 429, p. 46 (another cast illustrated).



Special notice


Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.



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