
Art Institute of Chicago
The Reader
Jacques Lipchitz · 1919
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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