Jacques LipchitzBather III 1917-18, cast 1960s

T03486 Bather III 1917–18

Plaster 29 × 10 × 10 1/2 (737 × 254 × 267)
Not inscribed
Presented by the Lipchitz Foundation 1982
Lit: Lipchitz 1972, pp.46–7; Stott 1975, pp.134–6, 257 (35, stone) and 285–9, reprs. 27–9 (stone and bronze)

The stone carving of this sculpture, dated 1918, is in the collection of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, USA, and was purchased from the artist by Dr Barnes in Paris in 1922 (Maurice Raynal, Lipchitz, 1920, n.p., repr.). The original plaster belongs to the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (Centre Pompidou 1978, II).

There are no sculptures specifically titled ‘Bather I’ and ‘Bather II’, and the present title for this sculpture was first used at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in 1968 in an exhibition which included two other ‘Bathers’ of 1917 (Lipchitz… (read more)