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B. Bilitt, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz

Letter from B. Bilitt to Jacques Lipchitz

1928

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B. Bilitt
Recipient
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title
Letter from B. Bilitt to Jacques Lipchitz
Date
1928
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 897/1/1/48

Description

The sender writes by order of the President of Russian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Moscow, professor [Pyotr Semenovich] Kogan. He proposes to Lipchitz to participate in an exhibition held at the Russian Academy in Moscow, namely 'Exhibition of the French Contemporary Art'. The exhibition is patronised by M. Edouard Herriot, French Minister of Education and Arts, and M. Anatole Lunacharsky. The exhibition will be open from 1 May to 31 June 1928 at the Museum of Western Painting [now A. Pushkin's Fine Art Museum] and at the Tretyakov Gallery. If he agrees, Lipchitz should fill out the attached forms and send them to M. Pierre Vorms, Galerie Billiet. Four sculptures and two drawings are requested. There is a later note overwritten in pencil: 'Four sculptures sent: 'Sailor with guitar' [Marin a guitar], 'Still life bas-relief', 'Musical instruments' and 'Sailor and guitar' [Marin et guitar].

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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)
        • Letter from B. Bilitt to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/48
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