Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the archives of the Comit Andr Masson under no. 830 and is sold with a photo-certificate from Diego Masson of the Comit Andr Masson dated Paris, le 17/11/97.
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Rape of Europa II
Details
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Rape of Europa II
with the signature and thumbprinp 'J. Lipchitz' (on the top of the base); with the foundry mark 'BEDFORF.BRONZE.FDRY.NY' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
22in. (57.2cm.) long
Executed in 1938 in a numbered edition of seven
Rape of Europa II
with the signature and thumbprinp 'J. Lipchitz' (on the top of the base); with the foundry mark 'BEDFORF.BRONZE.FDRY.NY' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
22in. (57.2cm.) long
Executed in 1938 in a numbered edition of seven
Provenance
Otto Gerson Fine Art Associates, New York.
William and Virginia Booth Vogel, Milwaukee.
William and Virginia Booth Vogel, Milwaukee.
Literature
M. Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris 1947 (another cast illustrated). R. Goldwater, Lipchitz, Cologne-Berlin 1954, no. 17 (another cast illustrated).
I. Patai, Encounters: the Life of Jacques Lipchitz, New York 1961, fig. 33 (another cast illustrated).
A. Wilkinson, Jacques Lipchitz, a Catalogue Raisonn, the Paris Years 1910-1940, Vol. I., New York 1996, no. 343 (illustrated p. 111).
I. Patai, Encounters: the Life of Jacques Lipchitz, New York 1961, fig. 33 (another cast illustrated).
A. Wilkinson, Jacques Lipchitz, a Catalogue Raisonn, the Paris Years 1910-1940, Vol. I., New York 1996, no. 343 (illustrated p. 111).