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Leaning on Head and Hands

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born in Lithuania, also active in France), 1891–1973)
French
1933

Medium/Technique Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 21 × 23 × 12.7 cm (8 1/4 × 9 1/16 × 5 in.)
Credit Line John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, and Mary E. Moore Gift
Accession Number2020.302
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

Provenance1940, left by the artist in Paris, where it was cared for by his dealer, Jeanne Bucher (b. 1872 – d. 1946) and his brother, Rubin Lipchitz (b. 1908 – d. 1993); after about 1953, retrieved by the artist and taken to Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; given by the artist to his stepson, Hanno D. Mott, New York; 2020, consigned by Hanno Mott to Martha Richardson Fine Arts, Boston; 2020, sold by Martha Richardson Fine Arts to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2020)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.