Surfside, FL
Details
- Dimensions
- 14.75ʺW × 1ʺD × 14ʺH
- Styles
- Modern
- Art Subjects
- Animals
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- Mid 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Gouache
- Watercolor
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Gold
- Condition Notes
- Good Good. Minor wear commensurate with age. Please see photos. Good Good. Minor wear commensurate with age. Please see photos. less
- Description
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Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-French, 1891-1973.
Mixed media on paper
Cubist style depiction of Taurus the bull and a condor.
Hand signed … more Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-French, 1891-1973.
Mixed media on paper
Cubist style depiction of Taurus the bull and a condor.
Hand signed "Lipchitz" lower right
in gilt gold frame with linen filet
Image about 8 x 9 framed to 14 x 14.75
Provenance: bears a loan label from Grand Rapids Art Museum verso.
This is Etude pour Taureau et Condor (Study for Bull and Condor)
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnason, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
Lipchitz' work is familiar to St. Louisans; his monumental 1927 bronze Joie de Vivre (a gift of Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg) is displayed at the Steinberg Skating Rink in Forest Park. The St. Louis Art Museum loaned two of Lipchitz' works, the 1923-25 Large Bather (gift of Morton D. May) and the 1926-30 Figure (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer) to the St. Louis Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibition at the Garden in 1985. The exhibition also included a 1940 Lipchitz' Mother and Child from an anonymous donor. The 1926-30 Figure was displayed at the Garden again for the Spring Sculpture Festival in 1972.
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center. less
Surfside, FL
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