Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1971 (after a 1919-20 plaster)

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973, French, American)

Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1971 (after a 1919-20 plaster)

grey marble
139.5 x 58.5 x 49.5 cm

signed beneath base: J. Lipchitz Pierre Levai has confirmed the authenticity of this work

Provenance:

Yulla Lipchitz, United States Private collection, United States Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc., United States of America Private collection, United States of America, 1998 Christie's, New York, 6 November 2008, lot 6 Private collection, United States Australian Collectibles Trading Pty Ltd., Melbourne Menzies, Melbourne, 14 September 2011, lot 38 Private collection, Melbourne Menzies, Sydney, 21 March 2013, lot 39 Company collection, Melbourne

Exhibited:

Jacques Lipchitz Retrospective, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1977 Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist Years, Marlborough Galleries, New York, 1980

Reference:

Hammacher, A. M., Lipchitz in Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1977, no.5 (illus.) Wilkinson, A., The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz, A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, The Paris Years 1910 - 1940, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, p.217, no.108 (illus. p.55)

Related Works:

Note: In 1919 Lipchitz drew up a series of approximately eight known works that were modelled in plaster, some of which were based upon human figures with instruments; after the war these plaster sculptures were placed in storage. Lipchitz later re-visited the works in the 1970s and completed them in marble and bronze as had been his initial intention. The present work, together with the two below mentioned works, form part of the group of eight related works. Arlequin à la Clarinette 1971 (after a 1919 plaster), marble, 112.5 cm height, sold Menzies, Sydney, 23 June 2011, lot 45, $842,727 (incl. buyer’s premium), private collection, Sydney Seated Bather 1970-72 (after a 1917 plaster), marble, 137.0 x 53.0 x 44.0 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish), Harlequin 1915, oil on canvas, 183.5 x 105.0 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, illus. in Palu I Fabre, J., Picasso Cubism 1907-1917, Könemann, Barcelona, 1990, p.455, pl.1384

Estimate: $1200000 - 1600000

Result Hammer: $1050000