Jacques Lipchitz “Selected Sculpture and Drawing from 1911 to 1972”
Marlborough (Midtown)
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Jacques Lipchitz: Selected Sculpture and Drawing from 1911 to 1972 is an extensive survey of the 20th Century master’s varied oeuvre. 82 sculptures as well as 47 drawings are featured in this overview of the career of Jacques Lipchitz.
Born in Lithuania in 1891, Lipchitz arrived in Paris in 1909 where he quickly became acquainted with key members of the avant-garde and began working as a sculptor. The young artist was particularly drawn to the work of Picasso and the two became friends after an introduction from Diego Rivera. Lipchitz created important Cubist sculptures predominantly in bronze. Among the earliest sculptures on view is Woman and Gazelles (1911), a bronze work that was extremely well received at the 1913 Salon d’Autumne and marked the artist’s first major public exhibition. Soon the sculptures began to feature Cubist planes and faceted figuration. Reliefs in stone also number among the works on view. Featured in the exhibition are works such as the columnar Bather III (1917) and Repentant Magdalene (1921) which Lipchitz considered one of his most successful abstract pieces as it achieved the form of “an asymmetrical pyramid intersecting a curving mass.”
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from October 22, 2015 to November 21, 2015