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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. HERBERT KAYDEN AND DR. GABRIELLE REEMIn 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. Dr. Reem's purchase of a Henry Moore Reclining Figure in 1954 which had been in MOMA's lending program engendered the couple’s decades long pursuit of modern sculpture. As a result of a sustained relationship with Henry Moore developed in the 1970s and several visits to his home and studio in Much Haddham, they added carefully selected works to the collection culminating in a favorite purchase of Butterfly, a unique carving.As patrons of Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery in the 1950s, they not only developed deep friendships with Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Charles Sheeler, and Jacob Lawrence, but also acquired significant work by all these artists. An abiding friendship with Jacques Lipchitz allowed the Kaydens to acquire a broadly representative collection of this innovative sculptor’s work. While on sabbatical in Paris in 1968, Dr. Kayden sought out Joan Miro and befriended Nadia Leger from whom he purchased a superb Leger canvas dated 1938. Frequent visits with Arnaldo Pomodoro allowed the Kaydens to build one the deepest collections of his work. 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.”

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Pegasus (Birth of the Muses)

Details

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Pegasus (Birth of the Muses)
signed and numbered 'J Lipchitz 6/7' (on top of the base)
bronze with a brown black patina
50.5 cm. high
Conceived and cast in 1944 in an edition of seven.

Literature

Henry R. Hope, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1954, p. 78 (illustration of another cast).
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, a Catalogue Raisonné, the Paris Years, 1910-1940, vol. 2, New York, 1996, no. 384, (illustration of another cast p. 35).

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. “ ! ”: Lot is imported from outside the EU. For each Lot the Buyer’s Premium is calculated as 37.75% of the Hammer Price up to a value of €30,000, plus 31.7% of the Hammer Price between €30,001 and €1,200,000, plus 22.02% of any amount in excess of €1,200,000.

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