Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891 - 1973)
Nationality: Lithuanian
Movement: Cubism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Born in Lithuania, Jacques Lipchitz first became a French citizen in 1925 and later gained American citizenship in 1958. He moved to Paris in 1909 and became a member of an avant-garde group that included Matisse, Modigliani, and Picasso. After 1914, Lipchitz became a pioneer of Cubist sculpture. After 1920, he style involved more open forms. A decade later, he was working with allegorical subjects taken from the Bible or classical mythology. He worked mostly in bronze but created some stone carvings Lipchitz moved to America in 1941 where he concerned himself with idea of spirituality in his artwork.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Diego Rivera - Jacques Lipchitz (Portrait of a Young Man) 1914 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Mexican
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Jacques Lipchitz, Study for a Sculpture, 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Lipchitz - Figure 1926-30 bronze The Museum of Modern Art German
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Jacques Lipchitz - Man with a Guitar 1915 limestone The Museum of Modern Art French
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Jacques Lipchitz - Bather 1916-17 bronze with gold pat New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Jacques Lipchitz - Rape of Europa 1938 bronze The Art Institute of Chicago French
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Jacques Lipchitz USA, 1970 Photograph,
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Jacques Villon, Jacques, 1924
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Jacques Villon, After Jacques Villon, 1957
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Jacques Callot, (St. Jacques le Mineur) from Les Grandes Apotres (16 of 16), 1632
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Jacques Lubin, Portrait of Jacques Callot, Engraver, 1696
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Charles Marville - Rue Saint-Jacques 1865-1869 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art French
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Jacques de Lajoue, Allegory of Art, 17th - 18th century
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Jacques Androuet Ducerceau, LeÁons de perspective positive by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (Paris: Mamert Patisson, 1576), 1576
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Jacques Schnier, In an Inn, 1933
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Jacques-Noel-Marie FrÈmy, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Augustin (1759-1832), 18th - 19th century
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Jacques-FranÁois Blondel, De la distribution des maisons de plaisance, et de la dÈcorationä by Jacques-FranÁois Blondel (Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, 1737), vol. 1, 1737
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Jacques-FranÁois Blondel, De la distribution des maisons de plaisance, et de la dÈcorationä by Jacques-FranÁois Blondel (Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, 1738), vol. 2, 1738
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Jacques de Lajoue, Allegory of Science, 17th - 18th century
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Johan Barthold Jongkind, Sortie de la maison Cochin (Faubourg Saint-Jacques) (The Road from the Cochin House in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques), 1878
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, One from Les Gobbi, 1622
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Jacques Callot, Le Pantalon, 1618
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Jacques Villon, La Faute, 1904

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Portland Museum of Art: Degas, Rodin, and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters
The exhibition offers a varied sampling of bronze sculpture, mostly small scale and predominantly French and German, that chronicles nearly a century of activity. The earliest bronzes to be included date to the 1880s, such as Degas’s Fourth Posit...
Jewish Museum: Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
The works in this exhibition are from private collections, supplemented with examples from The Jewish Museum’s collection. The collectors of these works share both an admiration for their beauty and an abidi...
Museum of Fine Arts, Basel: The House for Cubism: The Raoul La Roche Collection
Raoul La Roche, born in Basel in 1889, went to Paris as a young banker in 1911. There he cultivated close contact with his compatriots, including the architect from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edou...

Further Artwork and Information:

Jacques Lipchitz Online
Jacques Lipchitz, The First Cubist Sculptor
Jacques LipchitzArt Images
Philadelphia Museum of Art:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)
Lipchitz, Jacques on Encyclopedia.com
www.jacqueslipchitz.com
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