Catalogue entry
T03502 First Study for Pastoral 1934
Terracotta on a plaster base, varnished 4 3/4 × 5 × 3 1/4 (120 × 127 × 82)
Inscribed ‘104’ in black paint under base
Presented by the Lipchitz Foundation 1982
Lit: Arnason 1969, repr.105 (bronze)
The sculpture represents the nose and eyebrows of a head, looking rather like a pig, with a horizontal shape below the nose, which in other sculptures is more clearly seen as a clenched hand. There is a connection with the fragmentary heads of 1932, such as ‘Head and Hands’, T03496, but the title is unexplained.
A large, undated drawing of the subject is reproduced in Lipchitz 1972 (repr.110) as ‘Pastorale, 1933’, and a similar drawing was reproduced much earlier as ‘1942’ (in Curt Valentin, The Drawings of Jacques Lipchitz, 1944, as ‘Pastorale 1942’). There is no connection with the sculpture ‘Pastorale, 1947’, which has two figures (A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, 1975, repr.132)… (read more)
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