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Jacques LipchitzLithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees 1969
1969
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Actual sheet is 25 X 20 size includes frame. Hand signed and numbered.
The Flight exhibition comes from a portfolio of prints organized by Varian Fry in 1964 and completed in 1971. Based on the theme of flight to reflect the plights of refugees and the hope of a new life. Flight is comprised of eleven original lithographs and one original serigraph by twelve internationally renowned artists. All plates were destroyed after the artist printing and include a variety of illustrations from abstraction to figurative works; the portfolio consists of 250 signed and numbered prints.
Eugene Berman (Russian 1894-1972)
Marc Chagall (French/Russian 1887-1985)*
Alexander Calder (American 1898-1976)
Adolph Gottlieb (American 1903-1974)
Wifredo Lam (Cuban 1902-1982)
Jacques Lipchitz (French 1891-1973)*
André Masson (French 1896-1987)
Joan Miró (Spanish 1893-1983)
Robert Motherwell (American 1915-1991)
Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva (French/Portuguese 1908-1992)
Edouard Pignon (French 1905-1993)
Fritz Wotruba (Austrian 1907-1975)
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Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, 1891-1973, was born in Lithuania and came of age in Paris during the early 20th century, where he was active in the avante-garde community of Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, Chaim Soutine, and Juan Gris. Art historian H. H. Arnasson, who ranked Lipchitz with Picasso and Chagall, wrote, "Lipchitz, as a pure sculptor, is ...unquestionably one of the greatest sculptors of this century."
Lipchitz' work is familiar to St. Louisans; his monumental 1927 bronze Joie de Vivre (a gift of Mrs. Mark C. Steinberg) is displayed at the Steinberg Skating Rink in Forest Park. The St. Louis Art Museum loaned two of Lipchitz' works, the 1923-25 Large Bather (gift of Morton D. May) and the 1926-30 Figure (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer) to the St. Louis Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibition at the Garden in 1985. The exhibition also included a 1940 Lipchitz' Mother and Child from an anonymous donor. The 1926-30 Figure was displayed at the Garden again for the Spring Sculpture Festival in 1972.
The architect Philip Johnson asked Lipchitz to make a wall sculpture to be placed on the brick chimney over a fireplace of a guest house owned by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III on West 53rd Street in New York. Lipchitz decided to develop the piece from his Pegasus designs and call it Birth of the Muses in honor of the Rockefellers' interest in the arts. In 1950 he completed the work as a bronze relief five feet high. It was installed as planned and later was acquired by Lincoln Center.
- Creator:Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973, French)
- Creation Year:1969
- Dimensions:Height: 34.75 in (88.27 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)
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- Condition:minor wear to frame.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38213273722
Jacques Lipchitz
Biography: Jacques Lipchitz was a celebrated Lithuanian-born French sculptor best known for his Cubist works depicting figures, portraits, and still lifes made of bronze or stone. Born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz on August 22, 1891 in Druskinikai, Lithuania to a Litvak (Lithuanian Jewish) family. To please his parents, Lipchitz studied engineering as a young man. But around 1909, he decided to pursue art instead and moved to Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris. Lipichitz was a part of the artistic milieu in the famed Montmarte neighborhood of Paris, which included Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Juan Gris. He became especially influenced with work by Pablo Picasso, who had pioneered a style of art called Cubism. Cubism was an art movement in which images were fractured and broken into simultaneous fragmented shards of perspective. It was strongly geometric and not based on traditional representational art like portraits or landscapes. At the beginning of his career, Lipchitz created figural sculptures, but by around 1913 he'd shifted direction toward Cubism. At the time, most Cubist artists were painters, but Lipchitz had met Russian sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who was experimenting with Cubist sculpture. However he always retained recognizable figural elements in his work.
When faced with the Nazi occupation, he fled to the United States during World War II. Lipchitz went on to have a retrospective exhibition in 1954 which travelled from The Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and finally to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Today, his works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others. Lipchitz died on May 16, 1973 in Capri, Italy.
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