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Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jacques Lipchitz

1891 - 1973


La Femme au serpent

inscribed J Lipchitz, numbered 7/7 and with the artist's thumbprint

bronze

height: 61 cm. 24 in.

Conceived in 1913; this example cast between 1941 and 1973. This work is number 7 from an edition of 7.

Estate of the artist

Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York

Acquired from the above on 13 November 1987 by the present owner

Bert van Bork, Jacques Lipchitz. The Artist at Work, New York, 1966, p. 140, plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

Abraham M.Hammacher, The evolution of modern sculpture: tradition and innovation, London, 1969, p. 159

Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason and Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 8, p. 12, another cast illustrated

Abraham M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1975, nos. 62-3, n.p., another cast illustrated

Abraham M. Hammacher, Modern Sculpture: Tradition and Innovation, New York, 1988, p. 159

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz A Catalogue Raisonné, London and New York, 1996, no. 13, p. 38, another cast illustrated in colour

New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc., Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist Period (1913-1930), 1987, no. 2, p. 10, illustrated in colour