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Jacques Lipchitz
Lithuanian French Cubist Modernist Lithograph "Flight" Refugees

1969

About the Item

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) Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. 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)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    minor wear to frame.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38213273722

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