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Biography |
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1891 |
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Chaim Jacob Lipchitz born on August 22, in Druskieniki, Lithuania. He is the first of six children to Abraham Lipchitz, a young building contractor, and Rachael Leah Krinsky |
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1906 - 1909 |
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Attends high school in Vilna |
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1909 |
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Arrives in Paris |
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1909 - 1910 |
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Studies with Jean-Antoine Ingalbert at the École des Beaux-Arts as a 'free pupil' |
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1913 |
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Receives praise for Woman and Gazelles exhibited at the Salon d'Automne. Meets Picasso and other Cubist painters through Diego Rivera. Creates his first proto Cubist sculptures. Attends the infamous premiere of Igor Stravinsky's Rites of Spring. |
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1915 |
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Meets and lives with poet Berthe Kitrosser whom he later marries |
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1916 |
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Signs a contract with the dealer Léonce Rosenberg who gives him a monthly stipend. Becomes a close friend of Juan Gris |
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1924 |
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Becomes a French citizen |
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1926 |
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Joins the gallery of Jeanne Bucher |
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1930 |
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First large retrospective exhibition of 100 works is held at Jean Bucher’s Galérie de la Renaissance, Paris. The show is favorably received. Begins to explore biblical themes and the image of mother and child. |
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1934 |
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Exhibits a large scale plaster of David and Goliath at the Salon des Indépendents, Paris. His mother dies. |
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1935 |
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From August through October, he takes a trip to Russia to visit family. The artist has his first important exhibition in the United States, held at the Brummer Gallery, New York, but is unable to attend. |
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1936 - 1937 |
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The French government commissions him to create a monumental plaster sculpture (Prometheus Strangling the Vulture) for the entrance to the Science Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair, the same exposition where Picasso's Guernica and Gonzáles's Monserrat are shown in the Spanish Pavilion |
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1938 |
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Renews acquaintance with Gertrude Stein and produces two bronze portraits |
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1940 |
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In May he flees with Berthe to Toulouse when the Germans occupy Paris |
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1941 |
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He seeks asylum in the United States and with the help of his American friends, he arrives in New York on June 13. Joseph Brummer, now exclusively dealing in antiques, introduces the artist to Curt Valentin of the Buchholz Gallery. Mr. Valentin, who becomes his New York dealer, immediately begins to sell his work. He rents a studio in New York City on Washington Square South. |
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1942 |
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Begins to exhibit regularly at the Buchholz Gallery |
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1948 |
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Married Yulla Halberstadt. His only child, Lolya Rachel, is born |
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1955 |
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Nôtre Dame de Liesse is completed for Nôtre Dame de Toute Grâce at Assy |
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1956 |
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Receives Alfred G.B. Steel Award from Pennsylvania Academy of Arts for |
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1958 |
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Receives Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University |
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1961 - 1962 |
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He begins to be represented by the Otto Gerson Gallery, New York (later the Marlborough Gerson and presently the Marlborough Gallery, Inc.). |
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1963 |
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Travels for the first time to Israel |
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1965 |
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Receives an award for cultural achievement from Boston University and is made an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York |
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1966 |
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Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, exhibits Images from Italy. Receives Gold Medal from the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York |
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1969 |
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Receives the Einstein Commemorative Award of Merit from the Medical Center of Yeshiva University, New York, and Medal of Achievement from American Institute of Architects. |
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1971 |
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The artist travels to Israel for the retrospective exhibit at the Tel Aviv Museum which inaugurates the new museum |
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1973 |
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The artist dies on the island of Capri and is later buried on Har Hamenuhot, Jerusalem |
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Exhibitions |
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2007 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Early Works, Reliefs and Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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2006 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Interación de Formas, Fundación Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain |
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2005 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Donation, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao Spain, June 24th – September 25 |
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2004 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculpture and Drawings 1912 – 1972, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – March 6, 2004 |
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2003 |
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Jacques Lipchitz, Dibujos y Esculturas. Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, March 10 – June 1 |
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2002 |
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Los Dibujos de Lipchitz/ Lipchitz’s Drawings, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain, July 30 – September 22 |
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2001 |
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Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 22, 2001 – January 6, 2002 |
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1998 |
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Lipchitz dans les Jardins du Palais Royal, Les Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, May 20- August 31, 1998; traveled to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, September 1998-March 1999 |
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1997 |
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Jacques Lipchitz, Escultura 1911-1971, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain, May 20-June |
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1996 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: Sculpture 1910-1940, The Paris Years", Marlborough Gallery NYC |
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1993 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: Esculturas, 1913-1972", Galería Marlborough Madrid, Spain |
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1993 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973)", Centro de Arte Palacio Almudi Murcia, Spain |
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1991 - 1992 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: From Sketch to Sculpture", Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv, Israel |
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1989 - 1990 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: A Life in Sculpture", Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada & traveling |
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1988 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: Esculturas en Bronce", Galería Freites Caracas, Venezuela |
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1988 |
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"Hommage a Lipchitz: Oeuvres de 1914 a 1963", Galerie Hawan Moss & FIAC '88, Grand Palais Paris, France |
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1987 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: The Cubist Period (1913-1930)", Marlborough Gallery NYC |
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1987 |
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"Jacques Lipchitz: Esculturas", Galería Fernando Quintana Bogota, Colombia |
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1986 - 1987 |
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"The Lipchitz Gift: Models for Sculpture", The Tate Gallery London, England |
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1985 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor and Collector, Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 1-June 9 |
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1983 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Mother and Child, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, October 7-November 13 |
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1982 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures (Biblical Themes) 1930-1972, Aberbach Fine Art, |
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1979 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Small Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, 1915-1972, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, March 3-27 |
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1978 |
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Jacques Lipchitz, Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany, June 2-August 18 |
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1977 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings from the Cubist Epoch, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, February 12-March 12 |
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1974 - 1975 |
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Selected Master Drawings of Jacques Lipchitz: 1910 - 1958, Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, November 7-25, 1974; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, December 12, 1974-January 12, 1975; Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, February 8-March 1, 1975; Marlborough Godard, Toronto, June 1975 |
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1974 |
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Sculptures by Jacques Lipchitz, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, October 10-November 30 |
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1973 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptures and Drawings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, May 10-June 8; traveled as Jacques Lipchitz: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen to Marlborough Galerie, Zurich, September-October |
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1972 |
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Jacques Lipchitz: His Life in Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, June 6-September 12 |
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