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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Jacques Lipchitz

Tête

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November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Bid

220,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Jacques Lipchitz 

1891 - 1973


Tête

inscribed J Lipchitz, numbered 2/7 and marked with the artist’s thumbprint

bronze

height: 23 ¾ in. 60.3 cm.

Conceived in 1915 and cast during the artist’s lifetime; this example is number 2 from an edition of 7.

Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1957)

Herbert Rothschild, New York (acquired from the above in 1959)

Feingarten Galleries, Chicago

Acquired from the above on 24 September 1986 by the present owner

New York, Otto Gerson Gallery and Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, Andrew Dixon White Museum of Arts, 50 Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, 1961-62

Christian Zervos, Histoire de l'art contemporain, Paris, 1938, p. 305, illustration of the stone version (dated 1916)

Jean Assou, "Contemporary Sculptors: v–Lipchitz," Horizon, December 1946, vol. 14, p. 377

Maurice Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947, pp. 12-13, illustration of the stone version

Howard Devree, "Artist's Evolution: The Development of Jacques Lipchitz–Newcomers Beyond the Hudson," The New York Times, 6 May 1951

Michel Seuphor, La Sculpture de ce siècle: dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Neuchâtel, 1959, p. 22, illustration of another cast (dated 1915-16)

Irene Patal, Encounters, The Life of Jacques Lipchitz, 1961, pp. 159-61

Abraham M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1961, p. 37, illustration of another cast; pp. 170 and 172, pl. 21, illustration of another cast

Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture, London, 1964, no. 75, p. 75, illustration of another cast; p. 296

Bert van Bork, Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, New York, 1966, pp. 28, 31 and 116-19, illustrations of the wax version

Petr Wittlich, J. Lipchitz, Prague, 1966, n.p., illustration of another cast

Hjorvardur H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1968, p. 188, illustration of another cast; p. 189

Hjorvardur H. Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, New York, 1969, pp. 6 and 8, fig. 2, illustration of another cast

Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, New York, 1970, p. 250, pl. 304, illustration of another cast; p. 297

Jacques Lipchitz, The Documents of 20th Century Art: My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, pp. 20, 23 and 33-35, fig. 25, illustration of another cast

Abram Lerner, ed., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, p. 332; illustration of another cast; p. 714

Abraham M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1975, no. 21, p. 172, pl. 21, illustration of another cast; fig. XXVI, illustration of another cast

Deborah A. Stott, Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, New York, 1975, p. 273, fig. 3, illustration of another cast; p. 68

Pierre Daix, Cubists and Cubism, New York, 1982, p. 113

Hjorvardur H. Arnason, History of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 170, fig. 235, illustration of another cast; p. 167

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, The Lipchitz Gift: Models for Sculpture, 1986, no. 310, pp. 26-27, illustration in color of another cast

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, vol. I, London, 1996, no. 35, p. 42, illustration of another cast; p. 215

Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, 2000, no. 166, p. 268, pl. 151, illustration in color of another cast; p. 373

Catherine Pütz, Jacques Lipchitz: The First Cubist Sculptor, London, 2002, pp. 14 and 16, fig. 9, illustration of another cast

Kosme de Barañano, Jacques Lipchitz: The Plasters, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1911-1973, Bilbao, 2009, no. 30, pp. 100-01, illustrations of the plaster and another cast