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- Andrei Shimkevich
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Jacques Lipchitz
1891–1973
Berthe Lipchitz - Title
- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- April 1936
- 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 897/1/3/26/13
Description
Andrei writes about 'the portrait' which he saw at Dina Lipchitz's house. Presumably, it is a photograph of the Dzerzhinksky's sculptural portrait, received recently - see letters from Dina and Pavel Lipchitz, and Isaak Abramsky, all dated March 1936. Pavel Lipchitz was arrested in April 1936, but Andrei doesn't mention it. Instead he praises the portrait: 'I was glad to see for the first time the portrait, which I liked very much. I see a lot of life and energy in it and it is hard to believe that you did not know him'. Also he notices: 'I regret, that if a little bit more, you could be here [not clear]...It was even stupid, because a couple of days could not harm you'. He also informs that he 'took or taking a right way now'. And: 'it is spring now, when anybody wants to live so much...'.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Berthe Lipchitz (Kitrosser) TGA 897/1/3 (28)
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- Correspondence between Andrei Shimkevich and Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26 (11)
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- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26/13