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Jacques Lipchitz

The Harpists

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February 26, 05:02 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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8,000 USD

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Description

Jacques Lipchitz 

1891 - 1973


The Harpists 

inscribed JLipchitz, numbered /7, marked with the artist’s thumbprint and stamped with the foundry mark Modern Art Foundry New York NY

bronze

height: 21 ⅛ in. 53.7 cm. 

Conceived in 1930.

Estate of the artist

Acquired from the above in 1989 by the present owner

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Selected Sculpture and Drawing from 1911 to 1972, 2015, p. 30, illustrated in color

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Exhibition, 2018-19

Exh. Cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz, 1951, no. 11, illustration of another cast

Robert Goldwater, Lipchitz, Amsterdam, 1959, no. 12,  illustration of another cast

A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1960, p. 60, pl. 53, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, 1960, no. 14, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Otto Gerson Gallery and Ithaca, New York, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, 1961-62, no. 29, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, UCLA Art Council; San Francisco Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Arts Fort Worth; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Des Moines Art Center and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz, 1963-64, no. 49, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York,  Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist Period 1913 - 1930, 1968, no. 65,  illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jacques Lipchitz: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1911 - 1969, 1970, Berlin, no. 35, p. 69, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Jacques Lipchitz at Eighty, Sculptures and Drawings, 1911 - 1971, 1971, no. 32, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: From Sketch to Sculpture, 1975, p. 72, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz: 1891 - 1973, 1974, no. 12, illustration of another cast

A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1975, pl. 99, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Marlborough Replica Handbags , Jacques Lipchitz: A Survey 1911 - 1973, 1985, no. 12, p. 21, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat, New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist Period: 1913-1930, 1987, no. 48, p. 94, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (and traveling), Jacques Lipchitz: A Life in Sculpture, 1990-91, no. 63, p. 115, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat., Murcia, Centro de Arte Palacio Almudi, Jacques Lipchitz: 1891-1973, 1993, illustration of another cast 

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, London, 1996, no. 254, p. 88, illustration of another cast; p. 222

Exh. Cat., Coral Gables, Freites-Revilla Gallery and Boca Raton, Freites-Revilla Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Bronze Sculptures, 1996-97, no. 9, p. 14, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Marlborough Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculpture and Drawings 1912-1972, 2004, no. 43, p. 35, illustration of another cast