BIB_ID
193546
Accession number
MA 3500.276
Creator
Lipchitz, Jacques, 1891-1973, signer.
Display Date
Place not identified, not before 1941.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25 x 20.4 cm
Summary
Receipt for a bronze, "L'Enlèvement de Europe" stating that it was made in Paris in 1938; cast in bronze in New York (lost wax technique) in August-September 1941; it will be cast 3 times; "since each cast will be entirely retouched in wax by me, and since I am doing the carving and the burnishing, each bronze will have noticeable differences in its details"; this bronze is the first one cast; and it costs $2500.
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