Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Harlequin with Mandolin in Oval
Image View:
Overall view, patinated plaster
Creator:
Jacques Lipchitz (French sculptor, 1891-1973)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AD00519
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1923 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
patinated plaster
Technique:
casting (process)
Measurements:
125 cm (height) x 105 cm (width) x 21.5 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction; music; Musical instruments
Description:
Towards the end of 1922, Jacques Lipchitz was introduced to the American collector Albert C. Barnes, who commissioned him to do a series of five stone reliefs to be placed on the outer walls of his house in Marion, Pennsylvania. In 1923 Lipchitz worked on the series of high reliefs and clay trial designs for the group, part of which was Harlequin with Mandolin in Oval, an original plaster model, which was shown in the exhibition organized by Jeanne Bucher in Paris in 1930. The commission enabled the artist to go back to a line of composition involving musical instruments, reminiscent of the cubist sculptor’s earliest investigations, which Lipchitz had worked on while fully involved in the movement from 1918 to 1919. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
6A1-LJ-MRS-HMO-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Harlequin with Mandolin in Oval