Jacques Lipchitz
(American/French, 1891–1973)
Head, 1932
Sale 1175 - European Art
May 18, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$8,000 -
12,000
Price Realized
$8,820
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Lot Description
Jacques Lipchitz
(American/French, 1891–1973)
Head, 1932
bronze
incised with initials J.L., numbered 3/7, and stamped with a foundry mark (lower neck edge)
Height 8 3/4 inches.
Provenance:
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Purchased from the above, 1969
Rabbi and Mrs. Jay R. Brickman
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited:
(possibly) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jacques Lipchitz, March 14 - May 5, 1958, no. 67 (also traveled to Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands, May 21 - July 21, 1958)
(possibly) Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Jacques Lipchitz, May 20 - June 28, 1959, no. 58
Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, April 1 - 30, 1969, no. 11, illus. (also traveled to Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, June 8 - 29, 1969)
Literature:
Maurice Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947 (the plaster version illustrated)
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