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'Fallen Angel' by Israel Isaac Lipshitz

Group

Description

ObjectFormType: 

  • Sculpture

ObjectMaterialType: 

  • Bronze

ObjectTechniqueType: 

  • Sculpture

Colours: 

  • Bronze

DistinguishingFeatures: 

This sculpture is winged angel, on top of a square base and is signed 'LIPPY' below right knee. This sculpture has been exhibited at the following:
Ashbey's Galleries, Cape Town, 1936, no. 18
Argus Gallery, Cape Town, January 1947, no. 46
The South African National Galley, Cape Town, December 1968, no. 33.  

It is also illustrated in Bruce Arnold's Lippy Lipshitz: Biography & catalogue raisonne, p. 86, no. 101.

Inscriptions: 

Signed 'LIPPY' below right knee.
TypeValueUnit
41.00
27.50
18.00
History

ObjectAge: 

89 years 10 months ago

AgeComment: 

This sculpture was produced circa. 1935

Provenance: 

Dr. C Shapiro, Cape Town
Unknown
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Mr. Glazer, Johannesburg

ReferenceList: 

 
 

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