JacquesLipchitz.com is a tribute to Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), French Sculptor, widely recognized as one of the major cubist sculptors and the most acclaimed and innovative scultors of the 20th century.
This site features an art gallery, a bookstore,
a film library, several links
of interest and a shop.
Of Jewish origin, he was born Chaim Jacob Lipchitz in Druskininkai, Lithuania. He studied engineering before moving to Paris in 1909 to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian.
It was there, in the artistic communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse that he joined a group of artists that included Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso and where his friend, Amedeo Modigliani, painted "The Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz and His Wife Berthe Lipchitz."
Living in this environment, Lipchitz soon began to create Cubist sculptures. In 1912 he exhibited at the Salon National des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d’Automne with his first one-man show held at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. In 1922 he was commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania for five bas-reliefs. [Read
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Acrobat on Horseback
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Horsewoman with Fan
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The Dance
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