Jacques Lipchitz

Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [

It was there, in the artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse, that he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso as well as where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani, painted Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz.

Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculpture. In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne with his first solo show held at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania to execute seven bas-reliefs and two sculptures.^[5]

With artistic innovation at its height, in the 1920s he experimented with abstract forms he called transparent sculptures. Later he developed a more dynamic style, which he applied with telling effect to bronze compositions of figures and animals.

In 1924-25 Lipchitz became a French citizen through naturalization and married Berthe Kitrosser. With the German occupation of France during World War II, and the deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps, Lipchitz had to flee France. With the assistance of the American journalist Varian Fry in Marseille, he escaped the Nazi regime and went to the United States. There, he eventually settled in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the

In his later years Lipchitz became more involved in his Jewish faith, even referring to himself as a "religious Jew" in an interview in 1970.

Beginning in 1963 he returned to Europe for several months of each year and worked in Pietrasanta, Italy. He developed a close friendship with fellow sculptor, Fiore de Henriquez. In 1972 his autobiography, co-authored with H. Harvard Arnason, was published on the occasion of an exhibition of his sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Death and legacy

Jacques Lipchitz died in Capri, Italy.^[2] A contingent including Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik flew with his body to Jerusalem for the burial.^[8]

His Tuscan Villa Bozio was donated to

• Drawing of a sculpture – 1916
• Bather – 1916–17
• Sailor with Guitar – 1917
• Woman with Book – 1918, at Carleton College
• Bather, bronze – 1923–1925
• Reclining Nude with Guitar – 1928, a prime example of Cubism
• Dancer with Veil – 1928
• Dancer – 1929
• The Song of the Vowels – (Le Chant des Voyelles), – 1931 cast bronze sculptures at
  Paris, and the Kröller-Müller Museum
  (Netherlands)
• Bull and Condor – 1932
• Bust of a Woman – 1932
• David and Goliath – 1933
• Embracing Figures – 1941
• Prometheus Strangling the Vulture – 1944
• Birth of the Muses 1944–1950, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Rescue II- 1947
• Mother and Child – 1949 at the Honolulu Museum of Art
• Descent of the Spirit - 1959
• John F. Kennedy Memorial, London - 1965. This was originally on Marylebone Road but from 2019 has been in the lobby of the International Students House, London at 229 Great Portland Street
• Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut^[9] - 1965 at the University of Minnesota Duluth
• Bellerophon Taming Pegasus: Large Version – 1966–1977, begun in 1966 and arrived at Columbia Law School in pieces for assembly in 1977^[10]
• Peace on Earth – 1967–1969
• Government of the People – 1976

Gallery

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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1914, Acrobat on Horseback (Acrobate à cheval)
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Instruments de musique (Still Life), bas relief, stone
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Le Guitariste (The Guitar Player)
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1919, Pierrot
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1919–20, Harlequin with Clarinet
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Harlequin with Clarinet
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Man with Guitar
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  Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Portrait of Jean Cocteau
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  Mother and Child, 1930, Honolulu Museum of Art
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  Government of the People, bronze sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz, dedicated 1976, Philadelphia
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  Birth of the Muses, bronze, 1944–1950, In memory of Jerome Wiesner - in the permanent collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  The Spirit of Enterprise, 1960, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

See also

• Crystal Cubism

References

• Arnason H. Harvard and Jacques Lipchitz. My Life in Sculpture. New York: Viking Press, 1972.
• Hammacher, Abraham Marie, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1961.
• Hope, Henry Radford, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, New York, Plantin press, printed for the trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, 1954.
• Lipchitz, Jacques, My Life in Sculpture, New York, Viking Press, 1972.
• Stott, Deborah A., Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, New York, Garland Pub., 1978.
• Van Bork, Bert, Jacques Lipchitz, The Artist at Work, New York, Crown Publishers, 1966.
• Wilkinson, Alan G., Jacques Lipchitz, A Life in Sculpture, Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989.
• Dr Catherine Putz, Jacques Lipchitz: Master Drawings, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2009.

Notes

External links

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• Works by or about Jacques Lipchitz at Internet Archive
• Jacques Lipchitz, Agence Photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées
• Bruce Bassett papers relating to Jacques Lipchitz, circa 1961–2001 Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
• "Ask Jacques Lipchitz a Question: Jacques Lipchitz interviews during the summers of 1970–1972", Bruce W. Bassett, interviewer and video producer. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem donated by Hanno D. Mott, New York for the family of Jacques Lipchitz. Interactive online version published 2010
• Lipchitz, Jacques, Encyclopedia Treccani.it (Italian)
• Jacques Lipchitz in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website