Sale 7999
New York, East
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13 May 1997
Price realised
USD 10,350
Estimate
Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) Pegasus signed and marked with thumbprint on the back 'J. Lipchitz' bronze with green patina Height: 5 in.(12.7cm.)
Provenance
Caroll-Knight Gallery, Inc., St. Louis Sidney M. Shoenberg, St. Louis; (acquired from the above, 1948) The Shoenberg Foundation, Inc., St. Louis; (acquired by Eleanor S. and John M. Shoenberg, 1980)
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Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, May-Aug. 1954, no. 78 (another cast illustration p. 78)
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