Jacques Lipchitz
(1891‐1973)
Reclining Woman with Guitar, 1928 Bronze, edition 6/7
16 ¼ x 29 x 13 in. / 41.3 x 73.7 x 33 cm. Inscribed with thumb print and “6/7 J. Lipchitz”
Notes:
Lipchitz first made this sculpture in black basalt. Then he made it larger in white stone for Mme. H. de Mondrot, for the garden of her summer-‐house designed by Le Corbusier. In 1948 she presented the work to the Kunsthaus, Zurich. The basalt version was later acquired by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III and is now on extended load to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The bronze edition of seven was cast at the Modern Art Foundry in Long Island City, New York. The plaster is in the collection of the Kroller -‐Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Exhibited:
Cent Sculptures par Jacques Lipchitz. Renaissance, Paris, 1930
Jacques Lipchitz. Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1946
Jacques Lipchitz: Early Stone Carvings and Recent Bronzes. Buchholz Gallery, New York, 1948
Jacques Lipchitz: Thirty-three Semi-automatics 1955-1956 and Earlier Works 1915-1928. Fine Arts Associates, New York, 1957
Jacques Lipchitz. Stadelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1958-‐1959 Traveled to: Rikjsmuseum Kroler-‐Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands, Kunsthalle, Basel Aug Stadtische Galerie, Munich Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris Tate Gallery, London, 1959
Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture. Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1961 Traveled to: Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Selected by the Artist. UCLA Art Council at UCLA Art Galleries, 1963 Traveled to: San Francisco Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum. Fort Worth Art Center Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Des Moines Art Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jacques Lipchitz: Drawings and Sculpture. J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1964
Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor and Collector / A Photographic Study by John Swope. UCLA Art Council at UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles
The Lipchitz Gift. Tate Gallery, London, 1987
Literature:
Arnason, H. H. Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969, pp. 6, 12, fig. 6.
Barbier, Nicole. Lipchitz: oeuvres de Jacques Lipchitz (1891 – 1973). Exhib. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, 1978, ill. p. 65.
Gueguer, Pierre. “Le Nouveau Colloque avec Lipchitz.” XXe Siecle, no, 13, Christmas 1959, pp. 76-‐80. Hammacher, A.M. Jacques Lipchitz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975, pl. 100.
Hammacher, A.M. Lipchitz in Otterlo. Otterlo, Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Kroller-‐Muller, 1977, ill. no. 18. Lipchitz, Jacques. My Life in Sculpture. New York: Viking Press, 1972, p. 103. fig. 83.
Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff. Sculpture of the Twentieth Century. New York: Museum of Modern Art, n.d., ill. p. 140.