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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Recipient
- Filip Semenovich Amstislavsky
- Title
- Copy of letter from Jacques Lipchitz to [Filip Semenovich] Amstislavsky
- Date
- 19 May 1937
- 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 897/3/1/3/23
Description
Lipchitz writes that he is glad to be paid in Soviet currency and asks to give this money to his sister Fanya Lipchitz. He is also ready to make a portrait of Sergo Ordzhonikidze on the following conditions: 1) the death mask and all the photographical documents will be posted to Lipchitz; 2) 'although the moral image of the leader is clear to him, literature about him would be useful'. Lipchitz adds that when he was working on the portrait of F. Dzerzhinsky, he 'was imbued with his physical and moral appearance, that he accompanied [him] for several months as if alive'; 3) he needs a lot of time; 4)he asks to exempt the preliminary sketch from the procedure of presenting the jury; 5) he asks to say the exact size of the sculpture; 6) that time he wants his money for the commission in French francs.
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)