The Reader

Modern Art

1919

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Jacques Lipchitz
Title: The Reader
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.: 1919
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed J. Lipchitz, Sept., 1919 on base rear
Dimensions: 76.5 × 22.8 × 26 cm (30 1/8 × 9 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx through the Maymar Corporation
Reference Number: 1955.826

Arts Club of Chicago, An Exhibition of Cubism on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of the The Arts Club of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1955), n.p. (cat. 50), as Liseuse, 1918.
Alan G. Wilkinson, The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, The Paris Years 1910-1940 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), pp. 53, 217 (cat. 97), as Reader II (The Reader), 1919.

Chicago, The Arts Club, An Exhibition of Cubism on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of The Arts Club of Chicago, October 3–November 4, 1955, no. 50, as Liseuse.

The artist; sold to Arts Club of Chicago, 1955 [this and the following according to letter from P. Lukens to Mrs. Bush, Nov. 18, 1955, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, Chicago, by Nov. 4, 1955; given to Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.

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