Seated Figure

1917

Jacques Lipchitz (Chaim Jacob Lipchitz)
French and American, born Lithuania, 1891–1973

Beginning in 1900, young painters and sculptors of all nationalities migrated to the Paris neighborhood of Montparnasse, the city’s hub of avant-garde activity. Despite their different approaches and interests, the artists of the so-called School of Paris fostered an inspiring climate of imaginative cross-fertilization that helped to sustain the idea of Paris as the center of artistic activity until the beginning of World War II. Jacques Lipchitz moved to Paris in 1909, and through his friendships with Diego Rivera, Pablo Picasso, and others, he participated in the Cubist movement. His bas-reliefs and sculptures in the round communicate the geometric and fractured forms and the favored subject matter (musicians and seated bathers, for example) of contemporary Cubist paintings.

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Jacques Lipchitz
Title: Seated Figure
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1917
Medium: Limestone
Inscriptions: Signed on l. back of base: "J L 17"
Dimensions: 87 × 35.3 × 29.2 cm (34 1/4 × 13 7/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Robert A. Waller Fund
Reference Number: 1960.351

John Maxon, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1959-1960), pp. 11, 12 as Seated Figure, 1917.
John Maxon, “Report of the Director of Fine Arts,” Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1960-1961), p. 11, as Seated Figure.
A. James Speyer, “Twentieth Century European Painting and Sculpture,” Apollo 84, 55 (September 1966), p. 225, as Seated Figure, 1917.
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, The Paris Years 1910-1940 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp. 46 (ill.), 215, (cat. 58) as Seated Figure (Seated Bather), 1917.

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 6, 2013–Feb. 16, 2014, no cat. no.

Fine Art Associates, New York, by June 17, 1960; purchased by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 20, 1960.

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