Art, literature & historyJacques Lipchitz
1891–1973
Selected artwork
Guitar Player in Armchair
1922
Other names (10)
Chaim Jacob Lipchitz, Chaim Jakob Lipsic, Jacques Lipschitz, Jakoff Lipchitz, Jakoff Lipschitz, Jakub Lipszyc, Lipchitz, lipschitz, Zak Lifshits, Žak Lipšic
Biography
Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891 – 26 May 1973) 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.
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.
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Influenced by
- Auguste Rodineditorial inference
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Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
Later influence
- María Blanchardeditorial inference
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Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
- Boris Taslitzkyeditorial inference
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jacques Lipchitz. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art5 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art3 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée Greuze - hôtel-Dieu — Tournus1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work