Ploumanach
Details
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Ploumanach
signed, numbered and marked with artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 4/7' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 33 1/2 in. (85.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1926; this bronze version cast by 1961
Ploumanach
signed, numbered and marked with artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 4/7' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 33 1/2 in. (85.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1926; this bronze version cast by 1961
Provenance
Otto Gerson Gallery, New York (by November 1961).
Stanley Marcus, Dallas; Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 356.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Stanley Marcus, Dallas; Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 356.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 73 (another cast illustrated).
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, p. 220, no. 202 (another cast illustrated, p. 76).
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, p. 220, no. 202 (another cast illustrated, p. 76).
Exhibited
New York, Otto Gerson Gallery and Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, November-February 1961, no. 23 (illustrated).