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Jacques Lipchitz

Rape of Europa

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February 26, 05:00 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Jacques Lipchitz

1891 - 1973


Rape of Europa

inscribed JLipchitz, numbered 2/7, marked with the artist’s thumbprint and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Luigi Tommasi Pietrasanta

bronze

height: 39 ⅛ in. 99.4 cm. 

Conceived in 1969-70.

Estate of the artist

Acquired from the above in 1989 by the present owner

New York, Marlborough Gallery, A Tribute to Jacques Lipchitz, Lipchitz in America: 1941-1973, 1973, no. 48, p. 55, illustration in color of another cast in color

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Selected Sculpture, Reliefs and Drawings 1911-1972, 1985, no. 72, illustrated in color on back cover

Bogota, Galería Fernando Quintana, Jacques Lipchitz: Esculturas, 1987

Caracas, Galería Freites, Jacques Lipchitz: Esculturas en Bronce, 1988 

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Lipchitz: The American Years 1941-1973, 2000 

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculpture and Drawings 1912-1972, 2004, no. 89, p. 60, illustrated 

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Selected Sculpture and Drawing from 1911 to 1972, 2015, illustrated in color

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonne, vol. II, London, 1996, no. 677, p. 102, illustration of another cast; p. 258