Jacques Lipchitz

incised with initials JL, dated XII-20 and numbered 2/7 on the side of the base


H. 47 cm ; H. : 18 ½ in.


Conceived in 1920. 

Malborough Gallery, New-York

Collection Martin et Rena Blackman, United States (acquired from the above in 1982)

Sale : New York, Christie’s, Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale, 13 November 2021, lot 747

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner  

Georges Gabory, « Salon des Indépendants », in Cahiers individualistes de philosophie et d’art, Vol. 3, March 1922, p. 29, illustrated in black and white (another cast)

J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, London, 1972, p. 58, p. XXIII, fig. 42, illustration of a bronze model

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. I, the Paris Years, 1910-1940, London, 1996, no. 112-114 p. 56 (and listed p. 212), for the models in artifical stone, bronze and marble

Kosme de Barañano, Jacques Lipchitz, The plasters, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1911-1973, Fundación BBK Fundazioa, Bilbao, 2009, p. 131, illustrated (another cast)
Karin Sagner et al., Jacques Lipchitz : Bildhauer Des 20. Jahrhunderts / A 20th Century Sculptor, Dresde, Sandstein Verlag, 2017