Marc Vaux

Silver Prints, the majority stamped 'Jacques Lipchitz' and annotated by the photographer in red ink with title, date and medium of sculpture on the reverse, each credited to the photographer and numbered in ink on the reverse, the majority also stamped with 'PHOTO Marc Vaux/114, Rue de Vaugirard/PARIS-VI^{e - Tél. Littré 90-01' or 'PHOTOGRAPHIE/ARTISTIQUE & INDUSTRIELLE/Marc VAUX/23, Avenue du Maine, 23/PARIS - XVe' on the reverse,}

Various of the images of this lot were reproduced in Les Sculpteurs Français Nouveaux No. 7, 1929, with an article on Lipchitz written by Roger Vitrac.

Born in 1891 in Druskininkai, Lithuania, Jacques Lipchitz moved to Paris in 1909.  There he studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julien, and began exhibiting his work at Paris Salons from 1912.

Initially drawn to the Cubist movement and its proponents, by the early 1920s Lipchitz was seeking a means of escape, and another way to approach art.  After collaborating with Le Corbusier in an exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925, Lipchitz went on to complete a series of sculptures which would determine the direction of the rest of his work as a sculptor.  'Les Transparents' were unique bronze pieces created using the technique of wax casting.  In the playful use of his materials and complex arrangement of metallic lines, Lipschitz broke free from the confines of Cubism.

With many of the sculptures now lost, and others scattered across the world, these photographs are a valuable document of Lipchitz's significant artistic production during this period.