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The celebrated Collection of Dr. Herbert Kayden and Dr. Gabrielle Reem includes prime examples of works by one of the great masters of twentieth-century sculpture, Jacques Lipchitz. The prolific artist, who worked across a wide range of media, primarily favored bronze. In 1909 at the age of 18, Lipchitz left his native city of Druskininkai, in present-day Lithuania, and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. There Lipchitz befriended Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, and many of the other leading avant-garde artists living in Paris at that time. In 1914, inspired by the radical new artistic style he witnessed, he shifted away from classically inspired anatomical representation and began to integrate Cubist aesthetic principles into his work, quickly becoming one of the most prominent sculptors working in that style. He was able to brilliantly translate the abstract vision of objects deconstructed into a series of angular geometric planes into the three-dimensional realm. Even when working primarily with the Cubist vernacular, he always sought to imbue his constructions and sculptures with a human element by carefully balancing figuration with abstraction. By the early 1920s, Lipchitz was world-renowned. In 1922, the artist was commissioned by the preeminent American collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes to complete a series of seven limestone reliefs for his museum. Shortly after this major commission, Lipchitz began to favor increasingly more fluid forms in his work. The carefully curated Kayden Collection spans five decades of the artist’s work (1910-1970), and consists of works from the most important periods of Lipchitz’s prodigious oeuvre: the highly celebrated Cubist sculptures and gouaches executed between 1915 and 1925 (see lots XX and XX), his innovative “transparents” of the mid-to-late 1920s (see lot XX), and his signature mature style of highly dynamic and expressive labyrinthine forms (see lots XX-XX). Additionally, the collection is representative of Lipchitz’s principal themes, including: biblical and mythological motifs and allegories as represented in his Rape of Europa (lot XX) and Peace on Earth (lot XX); universal human themes of joy and sorrow such as his work Happy Birthday (lot XX); studies of the human form as in Study for Figure, Maquette No. 3 (lot XX), Composition cubiste (lot XX), and Figure (lot XX); and iconographies of sound exemplified in this collection by Woman with Guitar: Maquette No. 2 (lot XX) and Musical Instruments (lot XX). In addition to the seven bronzes (one of which is being offered as lot XX in our Evening Sale on November 12th), the group of works from the Kayden Collection on offer contains an exquisite ebony carving (lot XX) and two superb examples of the artist’s Cubist gouaches from 1918 (lots XX and XX). As one of the finest private assemblies of Lipchitz’s works, the Kayden Collection amply displays the collectors’ passion, discerning eye for quality, cohesive sense of taste, and their personal relationship with the artist.(fig. 1) The artist, age 21. (fig. 2) Lipchitz’s studio at Hastings-on-Hudson, January, 1959. (fig. 3) Jacque Lipchitz's relief on the facade of the Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania. (fig. 4) Installation view of the Kayden's apartment. (Barcode: ST6_6987) PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. HERBERT KAYDEN AND DR. GABRIELLE REEM
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Woman with Guitar: Maquette No. 2
细节
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Woman with Guitar: Maquette No. 2
signed, numbered and marked with artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 1/7' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1925
Woman with Guitar: Maquette No. 2
signed, numbered and marked with artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 1/7' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1925
来源
Acquired from the artist by the late owner.
出版
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, vol. 1, p. 219, no. 180 (another cast illustrated, p. 71).
荣誉呈献
David Kleiweg de Zwaan