Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Femme et gazelles

Details

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Femme et gazelles
signed, numbered, and marked with artist's thumbprint 'J. Lipchitz 4/7' (on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 46½ in. (118.1 cm.)
Length: 31 in. (78.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1911-1912

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982.

Literature

S. Cheney, A Primer of Modern Art, New York, 1924, p. 71 (another cast illustrated).
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, 1960, p. 14.
J. Lipchitz and H.H. Arnason, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, p. 7 (another cast illustrated).
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue raisonné, The Paris Years 1910-1940, London, 1996, vol. I, p. 214, no. 6 (another cast illustrated, p. 37).

Lot Essay

Femme et gazelles, was one of Lipchitz's first major sculptures, created while he was studying at the Acadèmie Julian. According to Alan G. Wilkinson, "He first made the gazelle after a sketching trip to the Jardin des Plantes, and he subsequently decided to combine it with a female nude, which he modelled at art school. Femme et gazelles met with considerable success when the group was exhibited in plater at the 1913 Salon d'Automne. The sculpture originally included one gazelle, but Lipchitz decided to balance the composition by adding another...Woman and Gazelles, in the balance and equilibrium of the simplified treatment of the volumes, shares with Maillol's timeless nudes a feeling of classical calm" (in A Life in Sculpture, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto, 1989, p. 60).

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