- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1955.54
- People
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Jacques Lipchitz, French (Druskieniki, Lithuania 1891 - 1973 Capri, Italy)
- Title
- Happiness of Orpheus
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1945
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228534
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 80.65 x 60.33 cm (31 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: J. Lipchitz
- Provenance
- [Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, 1944]. Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, by 1946, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.
NOTE: Provenance taken from SF MOMA exhibition catalogue and Lois Orswell David Smith and Modern Art published by the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
- Copyright
- © The Estate of Jacques Lipchitz
- Accession Year
- 1955
- Object Number
- 1955.54
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor and Collector, exh. cat., List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, 1985), no. 22
Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 335 (repr. b/w), 338, 373; cat. no. 149, fig. 144
- Exhibition History
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Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 09/06/1944 - 09/24/1944
20th Century Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 04/16/1947 - 05/18/1947
20th Century Art in New England, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/06/1948 - 06/30/1948
Jacques Lipchitz: Sculptor and Collector, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 03/01/1985 - 06/09/1985
Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
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