Word: lipchitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henri Laurens and Archipenko. Laurens's Dish with Grapes (1916-18), with its majestic rotation of painted wood planes around the calm central core of the stemmed fruit dish, is surely one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, and all the fresher for being little known. Jacques Lipchitz's flat, frontal cubist sculptures, like Detachable Figure, Seated Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision of feeling that predicts art deco. Archipenko was a Russian émigré who arrived in Paris to work in 1908. As Rowell...
Died. Jacques Lipchitz, 81, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century; of a heart attack; in Capri. From his native Lithuania, Lipchitz immigrated to France at 18 and became the youngest member in a group of cubist artists that included Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Georges Braque. Working in stone and bronze, Lipchitz simplified human figures into multiplaned, crystal-like abstractions. During the '20s, he began to reverse the process and "from a crystal build a man, a woman, a child." His ideal became Rodin rather than Picasso, his work more monumental, his themes heroic. During World...
When it comes to outdoor sculpture, Philadelphia is Fat City. A 1959 ordinance requires that 1% of the cost of all public buildings be devoted to sculptural adornment. Presently ready for casting in Milan is a 36-ft.-high bronze by Jacques Lipchitz called Government of the People, on which the city has already spent $122,500. But when Philadelphia's law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo heard that the casting and shipping would come to another $177,000, the news turned him into an instant art critic. "Government of the People," said Rizzo, "looks like some plasterer dropped...
...secretary to the late Curt Valentin, one of New York's most successful public dealers. "Do you paint?" asked Valentin when he interviewed her. "No." "Then you're hired." She soon was much more than a secretary, working with Valentin's artists-Calder, Lipchitz, Moore, Arp-on their shows. She became vice president of Marlborough-Gerson Gallery before going into business for herself. In judging the value of a painting or sculpture, she never seeks other opinions, relies exclusively on her own years of experience. "You just know," she says...