© Estate of Jacques Lipchitz
Currently not on view
Study for Prometheus Strangling the Vulture,
1936
Jacques Lipchitz, 1891–1973; born Druskieniki, Lithuania; died Capri, Italy; active Paris, France, and Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
x1968-87
Information
Title
Study for Prometheus Strangling the Vulture
Dates
1936
Maker
Medium
Pen and black ink, brown wash, and white gouache over graphite
Dimensions
31.0 x 23.9 cm. (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1968-87
Signatures
Signed and dated in black ink, upper right.: Lipchitz | 1936
Inscription
In graphite, verso, lower right: E.L. 41.143 Buchholz
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp, verso, lower right: [Douane Centrale, Exportation, Paris in circle]
Culture
Materials
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 96
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 337, checklist no. 805
- Michael R. Taylor, Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia, (Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004)., p. 130; no. 90
