Joseph Chaikov, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz

Letter from Joseph Chaikov to Jacques Lipchitz

11 January 1936

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Created by: Joseph Chaikov 1888 – 1979
Recipient: Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title: Letter from Joseph Chaikov to Jacques Lipchitz
Date: 11 January 1936
Description: Chaikov and Lipchitz met in Moscow in Autumn 1935. In this letter Chaikov advises Lipchitz to work in the USSR and describes the next version of his sculpture 'Football Players' which he is preparing for the exhibition 'Industry of Socialism'.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
Reference: TGA 897/1/1/81

Archive context

Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
- - Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
  - - Letter from Joseph Chaikov to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/81