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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Jacques Lipchitz

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600,000 - 800,000 USD

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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Jacques Lipchitz

(1891 - 1973)


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inscribed J Lipchitz, stamped with the artist’s thumbprint, numbered 7/7 and stamped with the foundry mark MODERN.ART.FDRY.N.Y.

bronze 

height: 28 ⅛ in.   71.3 cm.

Conceived in 1916 and cast in the artist’s lifetime

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., New York

Lila Miley Walen, Fort Worth (acquired from the above on 5 November 1976)

Sotheby’s, New York, 12 May 1994, lot 212 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Maurice Raynal, L’Art d’aujourd’hui Lipchitz, Paris, 1920, pl. 5, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz—Early Stone Carvings and Recent Bronzes, 1948, no. 3, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery, Cubism, 1949, no. 29, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Closing Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings, 1955, no. 83, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917)

Robert Goldwater, Lipchitz, London, 1958, no. 3, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, 1960, no. 124, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917)

A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, 1960, no. 29, p. 30, illustration of the stone version (dated 1917); pp. 35-36 and 172

Exh. Cat., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture from Three Private Collections, 1960, no. 96, illustration of another cast (titled Woman and dated 1917) 

Elizabeth Payne, “Four Faces of Cubism,” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 42, issue 1, Autumn 1962, p. 16, illustration of another cast; p. 17

Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., Lipchitz, The Cubist Period 1913-1930, 1968, no. 23, illustration of another cast

Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art, The Gallagher Memorial Collection: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, 1969, no. 16, p. 167, illustration of another cast (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt, Jacques Lipchitz, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, 1911-1969, 1971, no. 13, p. 20, 22-23 and 37; p. 49, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: His Life in Sculpture, 1972, no. 18, another cast listed (dated 1917)

Jacques Lipchitz with H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture

New York, 1972, pp. 42 and 45; p. 43, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings from the Cubist Epoch, 1977, no. 18, p. 2, another cast listed

Deborah A. Stott, Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, New York, 1978, no. 30, pp. 131-33 and 257; fig. 24, p. 283, illustration of another cast; fig. 25, p. 284, illustration of the stone version

Exh. Cat., Wellesley College Museum, One Century: Wellesley Families Collect, 1978, no. 57, illustration of another cast (dated 1917)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Gallery, The Lipchitz Gift, Models for Sculpture, 1986-87, no. T03499, p. 34, illustration of the plaster (dated 1916-17)

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art, Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1989-90, no. 116, p. 144, illustration of another cast; pp. 194, 238 and 243 (dated 1917)

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné: The Paris Years 1910-1940, vol. I, New York, 1996, no. 57, p. 29 and 215; p. 46, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Of Flesh, Form and Matter: Sculpture Selected from the UAMA Collections, 2008, illustration of another cast