Property from the Hans and Marion König
Jacques Lipchitz
Man with Mandolin
Auction Closed
March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Hans and Marion König Collection
Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Man with Mandolin
incised J Lipchitz, numbered 1/7 and indistinctly stamped with the foundry mark C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE (on the base)
bronze
height: 44 cm. 17¼ in.
Conceived in 1925; this example cast before 1973. The present work is number 1 from an edition of 7 cast by C. Valsuani, Paris.
Private Collection (acquired from the artist in 1959)
Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1985, lot 247 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in January 1986)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Bert van Bork, Jacques Lipchitz. The Artist at Work, New York, 1966, n.p., another cast illustrated
Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason and Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 66, p. 83, another cast illustrated
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, vol. I, New York, 1996, no. 183, pp. 182 and 219, another cast illustrated
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