Impressionist & Modern Art
Impressionist & Modern Art
Property of a New York Private Collector
Jacques Lipchitz
Sketch for Bellerophone Taming Pegasus II
Lot Closed
December 14, 06:25 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a New York Private Collector
Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Sketch for Bellerophone Taming Pegasus II
Inscribed JLipchitz, numbered 2/7 and marked with the artist's thumbprint
Bronze
Height: 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm)
Conceived in 1964 and cast in a numbered edition of 7 during the artist's lifetime.
Private Collection, Connecticut (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 1989, lot 206)
Acquired at the above sale
Acquired at the above sale
David Frazer Jenkins & Derek Pullen, The Lipchitz Gift, Models for Sculpture, London 1986, illustration of the plaster version p. 92
H. Harvard Arnason & Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 195s, illustration of another cast p. 215
Jacques Lipchitz, Small Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, 1915-1972 (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough Gallery, New York, no. 82, illustration of another cast p. 22
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years, 1941-1973, vol. II, New York, 2000, no. 616, illustration of another cast p. 88
H. Harvard Arnason & Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, no. 195s, illustration of another cast p. 215
Jacques Lipchitz, Small Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, 1915-1972 (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough Gallery, New York, no. 82, illustration of another cast p. 22
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, The American Years, 1941-1973, vol. II, New York, 2000, no. 616, illustration of another cast p. 88
This sculpture, conceived in 1964, is a study for the final version of Bellerophon Taming Pegasus which was commissioned by Columbia Law School in New York.