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Agreement for the execution of a sculptural portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky

collection owner: Jacques Lipchitz

Agreement for the execution of a sculptural portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky

22 November 1935

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Title: Agreement for the execution of a sculptural portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky
Date: 22 November 1935
Description: Agreement concluded between Jacques Lipchitz and the Committee of exhibition 'Industry of Socialism'. Signed by Lipchitz and Amstislavsky, the Chairman of the Committee. Lipchitz undertakes to submit the sculptural sketch by 1 April 1936. Since he lives abroad, he should submit it to the Soviet trade mission in Paris. The price of work is 2,000 roubles.
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 897/3/1/3/2

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Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
- Business papers TGA 897/3 (60)
- - Exhibitions TGA 897/3/1 (60)
  - - Unrealised exhibitions in Moscow (1937-39) TGA 897/3/1/3 (26)
    - - Agreement for the execution of a sculptural portrait of Felix Dzerzhinsky TGA 897/3/1/3/2