- Artist
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Original title
- David et Goliath
- Medium
- Plaster
- Dimensions
- Object: 330 × 133 × 133 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Lipchitz Foundation 1982
- Reference
- T03495
Catalogue entry
T03495 David and Goliath, on a Column 1933
Terracotta 13 × 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 (330 × 133 × 133)
Inscribed ‘J Lipchitz 1933’ incised under base, and ‘806 5 off’ in black paint, both under base
Presented by the Lipchitz Foundation 1982
Lit: Arnason 1969, repr. 100 (bronze); Lipchitz 1972, pp.127 and 131–2
See entry on T03515. Lipchitz (loc.cit.) referred to this as the ‘final sketch’. The composition differs slightly from the preceding plaster, as here David places both feet against Goliath's back and pulls himself off the ground.
[For T03397 and T03479 to T03534 the foundry inscriptions, and reproductions of casts in other materials in the books listed below, are recorded. Abbreviations used:
Arnason 1969 H.H. Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, 1969
Lipchitz 1972 Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, 1972
Stott 1975 Deborah A. Stott, Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, 1975 (reprinted 1978)
Otterlo 1977 A.M. Hammacher, Lipchitz in Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 1977
Centre Pompidou 1978 Nicole Barbier, Lipchitz: oeuvres de Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) dans les collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1978
Arizona 1982 Jacques Lipchitz. Sketches and Models in the collection of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. Introduction and catalogue by Peter Bermingham, 1982]
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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