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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.276
People
Jacques Lipchitz, French (Druskieniki, Lithuania 1891 - 1973 Capri, Italy)
Title
Study for "Mother and Child II"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Mother and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1941-1945
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312322

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and charcoal on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 48.9 x 30.5 cm (19 1/4 x 12 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., black ink: JLipchitz
  • watermark: J WHATMAN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1946, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© The Estate of Jacques Lipchitz
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.276
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 154, fig. 148, pp. 373, 380

Exhibition History

  • 20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
  • [Benefit exhibition for the Boston Arts Festival], Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 05/08/1956 - 05/29/1956

Verification Level

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