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Jacques Lipchitz, recipient: Margaret Barr

Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Margaret Barr

10 December 1940

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Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Date
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Created by
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Recipient
Margaret Barr
Title
Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Margaret Barr
Date
10 December 1940
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
Reference
TGA 897/1/1/32/5

Description

Lipchitz informs M.Barr that he is in contact with the American Center in Marseille and its director Varian M. Fry. Fry proposed to him some ways to send several drawings to Mr Barr, and that Lipchitz has already got a letter from him that 54 drawings and pastels were received. Mostly they are drawings for the sculptures left in Paris and in Castelmare.

This letter was kept with a letter from M. Barr to J. Lipchitz, dated 19 October 1940 in the envelope dated 20 December 1940.

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  • Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
    • Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
      • Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
        • Correspondence between Alfred and Margaret Barr and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/32 (4)
          • Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Margaret Barr TGA 897/1/1/32/5
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