Jacques Lipchitz

Chaim Jakob Lipchitz (1891-1973) studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian. In Paris, he met iconic figures such as Archipenko, Picasso and the Cubists who had a decisive influence on his artistic career. In 1913, he created his first Cubist sculptures, and in 1920, he organized his first solo exhibition at the Léonce Rosenberg gallery in Paris. In 1922, Lipchitz joined the "Esprit Nouveau" group. During the period from 1915 to 1925, he created Cubist stone sculptures, in which human forms and heads were reduced to simple, partially colored blocks. In 1925, he began experimenting with "transparent" sculptures, made using the lost wax technique, which led him to distance himself from traditional Cubism. His sculptures become more fluid and organic, replacing angular forms with freer structures.