Lot 49
  • 49

Jacques Lipchitz 1891-1973

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jacques Lipchitz
  • The Terrified One
  • inscribed JLipchitz, and numbered 6/7 with artist's thumbprint (on top of base); stamped MODERN ART FDRY NY (on side of base)
  • bronze, dark brown patina with traces of green
  • Height: 14 5/8 in.
  • 37.3 cm.
  • This model was executed in 1936 and cast later in an edition of seven.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 22, 1976, lot 327
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

H. H. Arnason, Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze, 1969, no. 117, p. 151, illustrated
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, a Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, The American Years 1941-1973, New York, 2000, no. 337, illlustration of another cast p. 110,

Condition

overall good condition, minor rubbing to patina at extremities, moderate surface soiling, minor scattered traces of verdigris
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