Jacques Lipchitz
Femme Assise, 1923, cast c. 1926
Lead
15 1/8 x 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 in
38.5 x 22 x 17 cm
38.5 x 22 x 17 cm
Edition 2 of 7, this is the only cast in lead
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Sam & Ayala Zacks, Toronto.Ayala Zacks Abramov, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, and thence by descent to the present owners
Christie's, London, 2017
Private Collection, UK
Literature
M. Raynal, Jacques Lipchitz, Paris, 1947 (the terracotta version illustrated n.p.; dated '1924').A. G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, no. 168, p. 219 (another cast illustrated p. 68).
K. de Barañano, Jacques Lipchitz, The plasters, a Catalogue Raisonné, 1911-1973, Bilbao, 2009, no. 98, p. 178 (the plaster version illustrated).
H. Harvard Arnason, My Life in Sculptureby Jacques Lipchitz, Viking Books, 1972, p. 80