Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

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Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Musical Instruments standing Relief

signed and numbered on the back J. Lipchitz 3/7, with the foundry mark VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE, bronze with dark brown patina
19½in. (49.5cm.)

Conceived circa 1923-24 and cast at a later date in a numbered edition of 7

來源

Pierre Lanique, Paris, by whom purchased directly from the Artist in the late 1920's and thence by descent to the present owner.

拍場告示

Light surface dirt. Otherwise in very good condition.

拍品專文

The original may well have been one of the studies commissioned by Dr. Albert Barnes in 1923 to decorate his house and art gallery in Merion, PA. The guitar and the open book were the same motives the artist used in his first cubist reliefs; typical subjects used by his artist- friend Juan Gris. It has been suggested that Lipchitz tried to incorporate the human figure in this sculpture; as indicated by the eye-shaped forms which were not used in any of his previous sculptures.
In 1923 Pierre Lanique commissioned Francis Jourdain and Pierre Chareau to design a fully furnished apartment at 72 Avenue Henri-Martin in Paris. Amongst the many young artists whom Lanique patronised was Jacques Lipchitz, some of whose most striking sculptures he used to decorate the apartment, selecting a number of pieces including the present work and lot 239.