Lot 24
  • 24

Jacques Lipchitz

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Jacques Lipchitz
  • Study for Benediction
  • signed
  • tempera and oil on panel
  • 26 7/8 by 20 7/8 in. 68.2 by 53 cm.

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (on commission)
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in October 1964

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, European Artists in America, 1945, n.n.

Literature

Abraham Marie Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York 1960, pl. 6, illustrated

Condition

The panel is sound. The pigments and fresh and strong. There is scattered surface dirt. Under UV, certain original pigments fluoresce but no inpainting is apparent. The work is very good condition.
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