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Miracle II
Details
JACQUES LIPCHITZ (1891-1973)
Miracle II
signed, numbered and marked with the artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 2⁄7' (on the back foot)
bronze with golden brown patina
height: 30 1⁄8 in. (76.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1948, and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 7
Miracle II
signed, numbered and marked with the artist's thumbprint 'JLipchitz 2⁄7' (on the back foot)
bronze with golden brown patina
height: 30 1⁄8 in. (76.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1948, and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 7
Provenance
Private collection, Maryland; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1995, lot 364.
Alan Dershowitz & Carolyn Cohen, Massachusetts, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2012, lot 504.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Alan Dershowitz & Carolyn Cohen, Massachusetts, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2012, lot 504.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, 1960 (another cast illustrated pl. 90).
B. van Bork, The Artist at Work, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1966, p. 174 (illustrated; dated '1947').
A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, The American Years, 1941-1973, New York, 2000, no. 429, p. 46 (another cast illustrated).
B. van Bork, The Artist at Work, Jacques Lipchitz, New York, 1966, p. 174 (illustrated; dated '1947').
A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, The American Years, 1941-1973, New York, 2000, no. 429, p. 46 (another cast illustrated).
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.
Further details
Pierre Levai has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.
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