Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
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Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. HERBERT KAYDEN AND DR. GABRIELLE REEM
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Variation on a Chisel VI: Begging Poet

Details
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Variation on a Chisel VI: Begging Poet
signed with the initials 'JL' and marked with the thumbprint (on the base)
bronze with brown-green patina
Height: 8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1951-1952, this work is unique
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist in 1960.
Literature
A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years, 1941-1973, vol. 2, London, 2000, no. 460 (illustrated pp. 53 & 159).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Lot Essay

In medicine, art, philanthropy, and science, Dr. Herbert J. Kayden and his wife, Dr. Gabrielle Reem Kayden, embraced innovative thinking. Remembered by countless patients, students, and artists, they supported scientific research and artistic endeavors with equal curiosity and passion. Their collection of fine art, assembled with scholarship and connoisseurship over many decades, serves as a tangible expression of their commitment to learning and to their personal engagement with the art and ideas of their time.

Drs. Kayden and Reem’s passion for learning and discovery manifested itself in the world class art collection they built beginning in the 1950s. They sought a complement to the innovative thinking they pursued in science by collecting works of signature 20th Century modernists, both European and American, and contemporary artists.

In its richness and quality, their collection embodies two lives spent in the pursuit of knowledge and beauty. In their own words, “There is no question that if you’re taken up with art, the art world, and artists, that it can be enormously gratifying and satisfying; it’s an opportunity to step into a different world and if you are lucky enough to have the door open, you ought to seize it, and take it and enjoy it and revel in it.”

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