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Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

Aliases: Jakoff Lipchitz; Chaïm Jacob Lipschitz; Jacques Lipschitz; Jakoff Lipschitz; Chaim Jakob Lipšic; Žakas Lipšicas

Professions: Sculptor

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    Jacques Lipchitz , 1891-1973 Marin à la guitare Bronze

    Jacques Lipchitz , 1891-1973 Marin à la guitare Bronze

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    Jacques Lipchitz 1891-1973 LA BAIGNEUSE Signed J Lipchitz, marked with the thumbprint, inscribed wit...

    Jacques Lipchitz 1891-1973 LA BAIGNEUSE Signed J Lipchitz, marked with the thumbprint, inscribed wit...

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    Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

    Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)

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    Harlequin à l'accordéon

    Harlequin à l'accordéon

Jacques Lipchitz Biography

(b Druskieniki, Lithuania, 22 Aug 1891; d Capri, 26 May 1973). French sculptor of Russian birth active in the USA. Lipchitz grew up in Druskieniki. His father, a Jewish building contractor, opposed his son’s desire to become a sculptor, but his mother was sympathetic and arranged for him to go to Paris in 1909. He arrived with no formal academic training and studied briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts before transferring to the Académie Julian. Mornings were spent drawing and modelling from life; during the rest of the day he visited museums. Lipchitz’s early nudes and portraits of 1910–12 have much in common with the classicism of Maillol and Charles Despiau, although he himself suggested that they had a common source in Greek and medieval art. On a visit to St Petersburg in 1911, he became particularly interested in the Scythian sculpture collection in the Hermitage. Lipchitz remained fascinated with the sculpture of the great non-European traditions throughout his life, and was an ardent collector of non-Western (especially African) art.

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