
Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue
Session begins in
May 20, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Bid
90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Le Retour de l'enfant prodigue
inscribed JLipchitz, numbered 3/7, stamped with the foundry mark Modern Art Foundry. .New York. N.Y. .U.S.A. and marked with the artist’s thumbprint
bronze
length: 49 ¼ in. 125 cm.
Conceived in 1931 and cast in an edition of 7 in the artist’s lifetime.
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner
Boulogne-Billancourt, Le Musée des Années 1930, Lipchitz: Les années françaises de 1910 à 1940, 2005, no. 47, p. 33, illustration in color of another cast; p. 101
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Cleveland Museum of Art, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, 1954-55, p. 57, illustration of the plaster; p. 91
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 1960, no. 16, illustration in color of another cast on the cover
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1960, p. 40, pl. XLI, illustration of another cast; p. 171
A.M. Hammacher and James Brockway, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1975, p. 6, pl. 102, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Duisburg, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum and Vienna, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Jacques Lipchitz: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1911-1969, 1970-71, no. 38, p. 71, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Tel Aviv Museum, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings 1911-1970, 1971, no. 35, illustration of another cast
Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 102, p. 121, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. and Zurich, Marlborough Galerie AG, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings, 1973, no. 23, pp. 27 and 59, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (and traveling), Jacques Lipchitz: A Life in Sculpture, 1989-91, no. 66, pp. 117-18, illustration of another cast
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, vol. I, New York, 1996, no. 259, p. 90, illustration of another cast; p. 222
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Galeria Marlborough, Jacques Lipchitz: Escultura 1911-1971, 1997, no. 14, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Les Jardins du Palais Royal and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Lipchitz dans les Jardins du Palais Royal, 1998-99, pp. 26 and 28, illustration in color of another cast
Catherine Pütz, Jacques Lipchitz: The First Cubist Sculptor, London, 2002, no. 43, p. 45, illustration of the plaster
Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Early Works, Reliefs and Drawings, 2007, no. 73, p. 59, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Biarritz, La Bellevue, Jacques Lipchitz Rétrospective, 2009, pp. 98-99, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Beyond Bible and Myth, 2010, no. 4, p. 9, illustration in color of another cast
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