
Personnage demontable
1915
Jacques Lipchitz's "Personnage demontable" (Dismantlable Figure) is a wooden sculpture that exemplifies the artist's engagement with Cubism and abstraction during the early twentieth century. The work's title refers to its conceptual and formal decomposition of the human figure into geometric, interchangeable components that suggest both mechanical assembly and artistic deconstruction. Created in wood, the piece demonstrates Lipchitz's exploration of how traditional sculptural subjects could be fragmented and reassembled to convey modern ideas about form, movement, and the nature of representation itself.
- Medium
- wood
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction
March 4, 2025
Estimate: $500,000 – $700,000
Lot 24
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