(Druskeniki/Polen 1891–1973)
Study for Government of the people, 1967 ca., signed, marked with the artist’s thumbprint and numbered ‘J. Lipchitz 6/7 (along the edge), h. 42.3 cm, bronze Ed. 6/7, (AR)

Provenance:
Artist’s Studio;
European Private Collection
Sale Christie’s New York, 12 February 1987, Lot 128
European Private Collection
Sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 4 December 2001, Lot 168
European Private Collection

Literature:
J. Lipchitz, H. H. Arnason, My life in sculpture, London 1972, page 222, no. 199 (larger version illustrated)

In the early 1960s Jacques Lipchitz was invited to Versilia by the Anglo-Italian sculptor Fiore De Henriquez. There he visited the famous art foundries Tommasi, Del Chiaro and Da Prato. Lipchitz was immediately struck by the skillfulness and kindness of Tuscan moulders and by the experience of marble cutters in Carrara.
Subsequently, he settled in Pieve di Camaiore and purchased Villa Bosio, where he would also host his friend, the sculptor Fiore De Henriquez, for a short period.

His links to Italy grew stronger in the following years. In 1966, an exhibition of sculptures titled “Images of Italy” opened at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York. Lipchitz died in Capri in 1973.
The Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation donated a series of plaster casts and numerous drawings to the Palazzo Pretorio Museum in Prato, as desired by the late Lithuanian sculptor. The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome preserves a 4.3 metre-high marble version of the totemic sculpture “Peace on Earth”.

Provenance:
Artist’s Studio;
European Private Collection
sale Christie’s New York, 12 February 1987, Lot 128
European Private Collection
sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 4 December 2001, Lot 168
European Private Collection

Literature:
J. Lipchitz, H. H. Arnason, My life in sculpture, London 1972, page 222, no. 199 (larger version illustrated)

In the early 1960s Jacques Lipchitz was invited to Versilia by the Anglo-Italian sculptor Fiore De Henriquez. There he visited the famous art foundries Tommasi, Del Chiaro and Da Prato. Lipchitz was immediately struck by the skillfulness and kindness of Tuscan moulders and by the experience of marble cutters in Carrara.
Subsequently, he settled in Pieve di Camaiore and purchased Villa Bosio, where he would also host his friend, the sculptor Fiore De Henriquez, for a short period.

His links to Italy grew stronger in the following years. In 1966, an exhibition of sculptures titled “Images of Italy” opened at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in New York. Lipchitz died in Capri in 1973.
The Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation donated a series of plaster casts and numerous drawings to the Palazzo Pretorio Museum in Prato, as desired by the late Lithuanian sculptor. The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome preserves a 4.3 metre-high marble version of the totemic sculpture “Peace on Earth”.