Jacques Lipchitz The Harpists

Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973

The Harpists
bronze
inscribed JLipchitz, numbered 2/7 and marked with the artist’s thumbprint
height: 54 cm. 21¼ in.
Conceived in 1930 and cast during the artist’s lifetime. This work is number 2 from an edition of 7.

Provenance:
Estate of the artist

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989

Literature:
Abraham Marie Hammacher, Jacques Lipchitz: His Sculpture, New York, 1960, fig. 53, pp. 52 and 173, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Otto Gerson Gallery and Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Fifty Years of Lipchitz Sculpture, 1961-1962, no. 29, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Denver Art Museum; Fort Worth Art Center; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Des Moines Art Center and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jacques Lipchitz: A Retrospective Selected by the Artist, 1963-1964, no. 49, another cast illustrated

Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason and Jacques Lipchitz, My Life in Sculpture, New York, 1972, p. 117, fig. 97, another cast illustrated