Rape of Europa

Modern Art

1938

Jacques Lipchitz
French and American, born Lithuania, 1891–1973

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Jacques Lipchitz
Title: Rape of Europa
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.: 1938
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: signed on l back of base: "J. Lipchitz 1938"
Dimensions: 39.5 × 60.3 × 32.5 cm (15 1/2 × 23 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Reference Number: 1943.594

Frederick A. Sweet, “Reports of the Departments for 1943, Painting and Sculpture,” Bulletin of the Art Insitute of Chicago, 38, 3 (March 1944), p. 10, as Rape of Europa.
Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Jacques Lipchitz, exh. cat. (New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1951), n.p., as Rape of Europa, 1938.
Dore Ashton, “Jacques Lipchitz: Master Sculptor of our Century,” Today’s Art 11, 5, pp. 8 (ill.), 9, 13.
Otto G. Ocvirk, Robert O. Bone, Robert E. Stinson, and Philip R. Wigg, Art Fundementals: Theory and Practice (Dubuque, Iowa: WM. C. Brown, 1975), 168, 169 (fig. 218, ill.), as Rape of Europa.
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, The Paris Years 1910-1940 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp. 111 (cat. 343), 225, as Rape of Europa II, 1938.

Chicago, Merchandise Mart, Good Design, January 12–November 1, 1950, hors cat.

Buchholz Gallery, New York, by Mar. 26, 1943; given to Art Institute of Chicago, May 27, 1943.

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