Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Pierrot assis

Details

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Pierrot assis
signed 'JLipchitz' (on the back of the base)
lead
Height: 13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1922

Provenance

Peggy Guggenheim, Venice.
G. David Thompson, Pitssburgh.
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, November 1962.

Literature

Guggenheim, Peggy, Art of this Century, New York, 1942, p. 77 (illustrated).
A.G. Wilkinson and A.M. Hammacher, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, p. 218, no. 137 (bronze version illustrated, p. 61).

Exhibited

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1915-1965, November 1965-January 1956.

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Lot Essay

Pierre Levai has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.

Another lead cast of the present motif is in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.

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