Seated Figure
Artist
Jacques Lipchitz
(French (born Lithuania), 1891 - 1973)
CultureFrench
Date1916
MediumBronze
Dimensions45 x 13 x 14 in. (114.3 x 33 x 35.6 cm)
InscribedSigned and numbered on the base: 6/7 JLipchit
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Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2013
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 219
Label TextJacques Lipchitz French, b. Lithuania, 1891–1973 Seated Figure, 1916 Bronze Jacques Lipchitz settled in Paris in 1909 and joined the avant-garde centered around Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. For the next decade, he produced severely geometric sculptures like this bronze statue. Although the figure’s head and eyes can be located easily, the rest of the seated figure is reduced to an austere bundle of vertical shafts fused together with flat planes and simple shapes—resulting in a work that is striking both for its monumentality and sense of dignity. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2013 ProvenanceJeffrey H. Loria, New York, July 26, 1968; Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, July 26, 1968; Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to the Chrysler Museum, 1971. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Large or Small, Bronze or Wood, Painted or Plain: Problems and Solutions in Sculpture", The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, July 9, 1981 - September 13, 1981. "Collection Conversations: Fractured Lens: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Influence," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 14, 2014 - February 22, 2015. Published ReferencesChrysler Museum. "Jacques Lipchitz," _Chrysler Museum at Norfolk_. Vol. 2, no. 5. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum. 07/1973. Dennis R. Anderson. _A Norfolk Bicentennial Salute: 300 Years of American Art at Norfolk's Chrysler Museum_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum. 1975: p. 198. David W. Steadman. _Large or Small, Bronze or Wood, Painted or Plain: Problems and Solutions in Sculpture_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1981: #13. Chrysler Museum. _Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Chrysler Museum_. Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art. 1982: p. 68. Roger D. Clisby. "Hidden Treasures from the Chrysler Museum," _The Chrysler Museum Bulletin_. XV. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum. 11/1985. Not paged. Jefferson C. Harrison. _The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings_. The Chrysler Museum. 1991. p. 172, #130.
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