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    Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale

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    24 June 2008

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    • Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
    Lot 28

    Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

    Homme à la guitare

    Price realised

    GBP 193,250

    Estimate

    GBP 70,000 - GBP 100,000

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    Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
    Homme à la guitare
    signed with initials 'JL' (on the front); signed, numbered and marked with the thumb print '2/7 JLipchitz' (along the top edge); inscribed with the foundry mark 'MODERN ART FOUNDRY. NEW YORK. N.Y.' (along the left edge)
    bronze with dark green patina
    44½ x 89½ in. (113 x 227.3 cm.)
    Conceived in 1923 and cast in an edition of seven in the artist's lifetime

    Provenance

    Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York.
    Acquired from the above by the late owners in May 1977.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    A. Wilkinson, The Sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, no. 153, p. 218 (another cast illustrated p. 65).


    Exhibited

    New York, Marlborough Gerson Gallery, Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings from the Cubist Epoch, February - March 1977, no. 39.


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    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF J. IRWIN AND XENIA S. MILLER

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