Property from an Important Private Collection
Jacques Lipchitz
Sketch for Bellerophon Taming Pegasus III
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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Sketch for Bellerophon Taming Pegasus III
inscribed J. Lipchtiz, numbered 6/7 and marked with the artist's thumbprint (on the base)
bronze
height (with base): 50.4 cm. 20 in.
Conceived in 1964; this example cast before 1973. The present work is number 6 from an edition of 7.
Christie's, New York, 13 May 1987, lot 373
Gimpel Fils, London (acquired from the above sale)
Christie's, South Kensington, 8 February 2013, lot 115 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
London, Gimpel Fils, Sculptures Reliefs & Drawings, 1989, no. 30, n.p., this cast illustrated in colour
Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, London, 1969, no. 161, p. 195, another cast illustrated
Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason and Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, nos. 195a-195d, n.p., another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, Jacques Lipchitz. Sculptures and drawings, 1973, no. 40, p. 84, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, The Lipchitz Gift. Models for Sculpture, 1986-87, no. T03480, pp. 92-3, plaster version illustrated
Alan G. Wilkinson, Jacques Lipchitz. A Life in Sculpture, Toronto, 1989, no. 121, p. 157-58, another cast illustrated
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years, 1941-1973, vol. II, New York, 2000, no. 617, p. 88, another cast illustrated