Jacques LipchitzPortrait of Gertrude Stein 1938

T03479 Portrait of Gertrude Stein 1938

Terracotta and pigment 12 × 10 × 8 (305 × 259 × 203)
Inscribed ‘J Lipchitz’ on back of neck
Presented by the Lipchitz Foundation 1982
Lit: Bert van Bork, Jacques Lipchitz, The Artist at Work, 1966, p.129 (bronze); Arnason 1969, repr. 124 (bronze); Lipchitz 1972, pp.63 and 140, repr. 127 (bronze)

Lipchitz made portrait heads of Gertrude Stein on two occasions, first in 1920–1 and again in 1938. The plaster of the earlier head is in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, 1977, repr., n.p.). In 1938 he made two similar terracottas of the same size, again of the head alone, the Tate Gallery's and another now in the collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art (Arizona, 1982, no.44)… (read more)