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Property from the Estates of Jane Wade Lombard and Lee Lombard
Ms. Jane Wade Lombard, a native of Kansas City, Missouri came to New York at the age of twenty and quickly commennced her first career as a Conover model. After a year, during which she was featured in full-page ads in such publications as the New York Times Sunday magazine, Ms. Wade "fell in love" with art and soon was mentored by the great art dealer, Curt Valentin. She later recalled, "I heard that Curt Valentin needed a secretary, so I went to see him. 'Do you paint?' he asked me. 'No,' I said. 'Then you're hired'. Ms. Wade revered her illustrious teacher, and after his death in 1954 she established a collection in his honor at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Seasoned by a quarter century in the art world, she became a dealer on her own and founded Jane Wade Ltd. in 1965. Her clients included Joseph Pulitzer, Joseph Hirshhorn, and Norton Simon. She provided them and others with works by Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Moore, Lipchitz, Chagall, Leger, Calder, Klee and Mondrian, among others
Jacques Lipchitz (1898-1986)
Birth of the Muses I
Details
Jacques Lipchitz (1898-1986)
Birth of the Muses I
signed and marked with artist's thumbprint 'J Lipchitz' (on the reverse)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1944; this bronze version cast at a later date
Birth of the Muses I
signed and marked with artist's thumbprint 'J Lipchitz' (on the reverse)
bronze with green and brown patina
Height: 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1944; this bronze version cast at a later date
Literature
A. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, London, 2000, vol. II, p. 35, no. 382 (another cast illustrated).