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Jacques Lipchitz

1891–1973

Study for Hagar 1948
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Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891 – 26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris where he was counted as part of the School of Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson. While in the US, he created a number of his best-known works, including the outdoor sculptures The Song of the Vowels, Birth of the Muses, and Bellerophon Taming Pegasus, the last of which was completed after his death.

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Artworks

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  • Head

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1915, later cast
  • Reclining Woman with Guitar

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1928, cast 1950s
  • Study for Monument to ‘The Spirit of Enterprise’

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1953
  • Study for ‘Prometheus’

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1936
  • Sculpture

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1915–16
  • Portrait of Gertrude Stein

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1938
  • Sketch for ‘Bellerophon Taming Pegasus’

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1964
  • Sketch for ‘Government of the People’

    Jacques Lipchitz
    1967–8
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Sketches, letters, etc.

  • Letter from Michel Leiris to Jacques Lipchitz

    Michel Leiris, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz
    [1920–9]
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  • Sketch [for ‘Sitting woman’] by Jacques Lipchitz

    Jacques Lipchitz
    [1921]
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  • Journal ‘Muba. Revue internationale’

    Collection owner: Jacques Lipchitz
    July 1928
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  • Untitled drawing of a man with rooster

    Unknown Photographer
    [1910–20]
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