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12476.
By Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973 |
| Category - International Modern Prints - Tuesday, March 16th. |
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Description
Zion, signed in pencil (lower right) and numbered 149/200 (lower left)
Technique
Lithograph in colors
Dimensions
74 x 55 cm
Condition
Minor foxing, otherwise good
Biography
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz (1891-1973). Born in Druskieniki, Lithuania to a Jewish family. In 1909 he moved to Paris, where be attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian and soon met Picasso, Gris and Braque. In 1912 he began exhibiting at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts and the Salon dAutomne. Lipchitzs first one-man show was held at Léonce Rosenbergs Galerie LEffort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1924 he became a French citizen. Lipchitzs first important retrospective took place at Jeanne Buchers Galerie de la Renaissance in Paris in 1930. Lipchitz became the pre-eminent sculptor of the Cubist movement, receiving international recognition. In 1925, the heavy, angular forms, which had characterized Lipchitzs Cubist output, gave way to the more abstract forms of his openwork sculptures, inspired in part by the African art that he so passionately collected. During and after the Second World War Lipchitz tried to give artistic expression to the turbulence and suffering of the preceding decade by modeling a number of mythological and biblical groups that are characterized by Baroque pathos and highly expressive gestures. In 1941 Lipchitz fled Paris for New York, where he began exhibiting regularly at the Buchholz Gallery. He settled in New York in 1947. In 1954 a Lipchitz retrospective traveled from The Museum of Modem Art in New York to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1958 he became a United States citizen. From 1964 to 1966 Lipchitz showed annually at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York. From 1970 until 1973 be worked on large-scale commissions for the Municipal Plaza in Philadelphia, Columbia University in New York and the Hadassah Medici Center near Jerusalem. These projects were completed after Lipchitzs death by his wife Yulla. In 1972 the artists autobiography was published on the occasion of an exhibition of his sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Lipchitz died on May 16, 1973, on Capri, and was buried in Jerusalem.
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Zion
Estimate: $450/$600
Location: Israel
Number of Bids: 3
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