Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Homme allongé à la guitare
signed with initials 'J.L.' (on the front); signed, numbered, marked with artist's thumbprint and stamped with foundry mark 'JLipchitz 3/7 .MODERN ART FOUNDRY. .NEW YORK. .N.Y..' (on the edges)
bronze with dark brown patina
45 x 90 in. (114.3 x 228.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1923
Provenance
Estate of the artist. Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 2008.
Literature
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné: The Paris Years, 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. 1, p. 218, no. 153 (another cast illustrated, p. 65).