Head, Hair and Hands

Jacques Lipchitz, artist

1891–1973

Head, Hair and Hands, 1933

Where object was made: France

Material/technique: drypoint; roulette; wove paper

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 184 x 108 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 305 x 245 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 x 9 5/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: Gift of Mr. Jerome Singer through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation

Accession number: 1979.0118

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Primarily a sculptor, Lipchitz studied traditional art techniques in Paris, from 1909. Meeting Picasso through Diego Rivera, a mutual friend, had a profound impact on the young artist, who soon abandoned his classical training and Art Nouveau style for new cubist structural possibilities. He created the most abstract pieces of his oeuvre during the mid-1910s. However, in the following decade, Lipchitz experimented with skeletal, open forms, and mythological and sexual subjects.

When German troops invaded France in 1940, Lipchitz fled Paris for New York. During those years of exile, his work became more autobiographical, expressing horror at the atrocities occuring in Europe. After the war, Lipchitz traveled widely, going wherever commissions took him. Because of his dedication to the cause of Jewish independence during the 1940s, he felt Jerusalem was his spirtual home and was finally laid to rest in that city when he died in 1973.