Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), L'acrobate à cheval

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
L'acrobate à cheval
signed, dated, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'J. Lipchitz 14 4/7 C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 21 ¼ in. (53.9 cm.)
Length: 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1914 and cast in the artist's lifetime

Provenance
Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the late owner, 2 September 1954.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson

Literature
A.M. Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1960, pp. 37 and 170, no. XXV (another cast illustrated).
H. Osborne, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford, 1988, p. 329.
A.G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, The Paris Years, 1910-1940, New York, 1996, vol. I, p. 39, no. 17 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated again, p. 120).

Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center and The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, May 1954-March 1955, pp. 24 and 90 (illustrated, p. 24).
New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Horse Tales: American Images and Icons, 1800-2000, October-December 2001, p. 44 (titled Circus Acrobat on a Horse).