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Sketch for ‘Joy of Life in the New World’ by Jacques Lipchitz

[1935]

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Created by
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title
Sketch for ‘Joy of Life in the New World’ by Jacques Lipchitz
Date
[1935]
Medium
Pencil on paper
Dimensions
310 × 230 mm
Description
Sketch is not signed , not titled and not dated. It depicts two or more interwining standing figures, with distinct hammer and sickle held by two hands. Most likely, it was made for the project of 'Joie de vivre dans le monde nouveau' [Joy of life in the new world], submitted for the competition at the 'Vsekokhudozhnik' in Moscow in 1935. See the set of photographs of this model for the same project: TGA 897/7/1/4/3-10.
Format
Artwork - on paper, unique
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
Reference
TGA 897/2/11

Archive context

  • Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
    • Artworks TGA 897/2 (23)
      • Sketch for ‘Joy of Life in the New World’ by Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/2/11
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