Jacques Lipchitz

Birth of the Muses

Monumental Item

Lot Closed

November 19, 06:01 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Florida

Jacques Lipchitz

1891 - 1973

Birth of the Muses

Bronze

Length: 89 in. (226 cm)

Conceived between 1944-50 and cast in a numbered edition of 7 during the artist's lifetime.

Inscribed JLipchitz and numbered 7/7

Please note that this work is inscribed JLipchitz and numbered 7/7

Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above in 1991

Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years, 1941-1973, vol. II, New York, 2000, no. 385, illustration of another cast p. 35