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Property Sold by the Swiss Friends of the Israel Museum, to be Sold for the Benefit of the Israel Museum

Jacques Lipchitz

The Last Embrace

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold by the Swiss Friends of the Israel Museum, to be Sold for the Benefit of the Israel Museum

Jacques Lipchitz 

1891 - 1973 

 

The Last Embrace 

inscribed JLipchitz, numbered 1/7, marked with the artist's thumbprint and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia D'Arts Luigi Tommasi Pietrasanta

bronze 

height: 41 in. 104 cm. 

Conceived in 1970-71.

Estate of the artist

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years 1941-1973, London, 2000, vol. II, no. 711, p. 112, illustration of another cast; p. 259