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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Recipient
- Isaak Abramsky
- Title
- Letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Isaak Abramsky
- Date
- 23 March 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 897/3/1/3/3
Description
In his letter Lipchitz informs Abramsky about the agreement concluded between himself and comrade Amstislavsky on 22 November 1935. Lipchitz will undertake to made a sculptural portrait of F. Dzerzhinsky approximately 1 m heignt, but to produce a sketch of it by 1 April 1936. The notes to this agreement say that this sketch can be brought to the Soviet trade mission in Paris for passing it to the Committee of the exhibition in Moscow. Nevertheless, when on 13 March 1936 Lipchitz brought the sketch, officials at the mission refused to take it and to pass it to Moscow, saying that it was not their responsibility. Therefore Lipchitz contacted a transport company to convey the sketch on an airplane. The receipt was attached. Also Lipchitz remarks that the sketch is smaller than the final work, and that his representative in Moscow is [his sister] Fanya Abramovna Lipchitz, dwelling at the flat 73, 24 Kirova street in Moscow. Attached is a postal receipt for delivery from Paris to Moscow, obviously, for sketch of the portrait.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Business papers TGA 897/3 (60)
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- Exhibitions TGA 897/3/1 (60)
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- Unrealised exhibitions in Moscow (1937-39) TGA 897/3/1/3 (26)
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- Letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Isaak Abramsky TGA 897/3/1/3/3