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Jacques Lipchitz

Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891[1] – 26 May 1973[2]) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris where he was counted as part of the School of Paris.[3] Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson. While in the US, he created a number of his best-known works, including the outdoor sculptures The Song of the Vowels, Birth of the Muses, and Bellerophon Taming Pegasus, the last of which was completed after his death.

Jacques Lipchitz

Chaim Jacob Lipschitz

(1891-08-22)22 August 1891
Druskininkai, Lithuania

26 May 1973(1973-05-26) (aged 81)

Capri, Italy

French, American

École des Beaux-Arts

sculpting

Cubism, School of Paris

Death and legacy[edit]

Jacques Lipchitz died in Capri, Italy.[2] A contingent including Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik flew with his body to Jerusalem for the burial.[8]


His Tuscan Villa Bozio was donated to Chabad-Lubavitch in Italy and currently hosts an annual Jewish summer camp in its premises.[7]

Drawing of a sculpture – 1916

Bather – 1916–17

Sailor with Guitar – 1917

Woman with Book – 1918, at

Carleton College

Bather, bronze – 1923–1925

Reclining Nude with Guitar – 1928, a prime example of Cubism

Dancer with Veil – 1928

Dancer – 1929

The Song of the Vowels – (Le Chant des Voyelles), – 1931 cast bronze sculptures at ; Princeton University; UCLA; Stanford University; Kykuit Estate Gardens (New York), Paris, and the Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)

Cornell University

Bull and Condor – 1932

Bust of a Woman – 1932

David and Goliath – 1933

Embracing Figures – 1941

Prometheus Strangling the Vulture – 1944

1944–1950, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Birth of the Muses

Rescue II- 1947

Mother and Child – 1949 at the

Honolulu Museum of Art

Descent of the Spirit - 1959

- 1965. This was originally on Marylebone Road but from 2019 has been in the lobby of the International Students House, London at 229 Great Portland Street

John F. Kennedy Memorial, London

Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut - 1965 at the University of Minnesota Duluth

[9]

: Large Version – 1966–1977, begun in 1966 and arrived at Columbia Law School in pieces for assembly in 1977[10]

Bellerophon Taming Pegasus

– 1967–1969

Peace on Earth

Government of the People – 1976

Jacques Lipchitz, 1914, Acrobat on Horseback (Acrobate à cheval)

Jacques Lipchitz, 1914, Acrobat on Horseback (Acrobate à cheval)

Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Instruments de musique (Still Life), bas relief, stone

Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Instruments de musique (Still Life), bas relief, stone

Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Le Guitariste (The Guitar Player)

Jacques Lipchitz, 1918, Le Guitariste (The Guitar Player)

Jacques Lipchitz, 1919, Pierrot

Jacques Lipchitz, 1919, Pierrot

Jacques Lipchitz, 1919–20, Harlequin with Clarinet

Jacques Lipchitz, 1919–20, Harlequin with Clarinet

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Harlequin with Clarinet

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Harlequin with Clarinet

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Man with Guitar

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Man with Guitar

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Portrait of Jean Cocteau

Jacques Lipchitz, 1920, Portrait of Jean Cocteau

Mother and Child, 1930, Honolulu Museum of Art

Mother and Child, 1930, Honolulu Museum of Art

Government of the People, bronze sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz, dedicated 1976, Philadelphia

Government of the People, bronze sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz, dedicated 1976, Philadelphia

Birth of the Muses, bronze, 1944–1950, In memory of Jerome Wiesner - in the permanent collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Birth of the Muses, bronze, 1944–1950, In memory of Jerome Wiesner - in the permanent collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Spirit of Enterprise, 1960, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

The Spirit of Enterprise, 1960, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

Crystal Cubism

Arnason H. Harvard and Jacques Lipchitz. My Life in Sculpture. New York: Viking Press, 1972.

Hammacher, Abraham Marie, Jacques Lipchitz, His Sculpture, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1961.

Hope, Henry Radford, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, New York, Plantin press, printed for the trustees of the Museum of Modern Art, 1954.

Lipchitz, Jacques, My Life in Sculpture, New York, Viking Press, 1972.

Stott, Deborah A., Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism, New York, Garland Pub., 1978.

Van Bork, Bert, Jacques Lipchitz, The Artist at Work, New York, Crown Publishers, 1966.

Wilkinson, Alan G., Jacques Lipchitz, A Life in Sculpture, Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989.

Dr Catherine Putz, Jacques Lipchitz: Master Drawings, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2009.

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Jacques Lipchitz

Jacques Lipchitz, Agence Photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées

Archived 2012-09-28 at the Wayback Machine from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Bruce Bassett papers relating to Jacques Lipchitz, circa 1961–2001

Bruce W. Bassett, interviewer and video producer. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem donated by Hanno D. Mott, New York for the family of Jacques Lipchitz. Interactive online version published 2010

"Ask Jacques Lipchitz a Question: Jacques Lipchitz interviews during the summers of 1970–1972"

Lipchitz, Jacques, Encyclopedia Treccani.it (Italian)

in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

Jacques Lipchitz