Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1971 (conceived 1919-20)

Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973, French, American)

Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1971 (conceived 1919-20)

grey marble
139.5 x 58.5 x 49.5 cm

signed to base: J. Lipchitz



Pierre Levai has confirmed the authenticity of this work

Provenance:

Yulla Lipchitz, United States of America

Private collection, United States of America

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

Menzies, Melbourne, 24 September 2015, lot 42

Company collection, Melbourne

Menzies, Sydney, 30 November 2017, lot 45

The private collection of Mr Rodney Menzies

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.

Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1920, plaster, 77.5 cm height, University of Arizona collection, United States

Homme Assis à la Clarinette II 1919-20, bronze, edition of 7, height 75.0 cm , private collection

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: $800000 - 1000000