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Jacques Lipchitz — Personnage demontable
Jacques Lipchitz

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

🔨 Auction Lot

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

March 4, 2025

Estimate: $500,000$700,000

Lot 24

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Jacques Lipchitz, 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
Year
1915
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

20th Century, Cubism, Bronze Sculpture, Geometric Composition, Lithuanian-American artist, Three Dimensional Form, Dismantlable structure, Modernist Aesthetic, Human Figure

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