'Fallen Angel' by Israel Isaac Lipshitz

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Object Auto ID

11118

Alternate Codes

objectautoid_sahrisv1_14610

Common Name

'Fallen Angel' by Israel Isaac Lipshitz

Classified Name

Sculpture

Quantity

1.00

Object Description

'Fallen Angel' is a bronze sculpture by the South African artist Israel Isaac "Lippy" Lipshitz, the work is one of two casts made. It is signed 'LIPPY' below right knee, and the dimensions are 41 x 27.5 x 18cm (16 1/8 x 10 13/16 x 7 1/16in) excluding the sculpture base. The date this sculpture was made is this work is circa 1935.

Provenance

Dr. C Shapiro, Cape TownUnknownSouth African National Gallery, Cape TownMr. Glazer, Johannesburg

Description

Material Types

Bronze

Technique Types

Sculptured

Colours

Bronze

Distinguishing Features

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. 18Argus Gallery, Cape Town, January 1947, no. 46The 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.

Measurement Type	Unit	Value
Width	cm	27.50	View
Height	cm	41.00	View
Depth	cm	18.00	View

History

Object Age

1935

Object Age Comment

This sculpture was produced circa. 1935

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