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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Sketch for ‘Prometheus Killing Vulture’ by Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- [1935–42]
- Medium
- Wash and bodycolor on lined paper
- Dimensions
- 300 × 225 mm
- Description
- Sketch is not signed, not titled and not dated. It depicts a standing man killing vulture. Dates are derived from the known evidences, such as Lipchitz's autobiography, saying when he was working on the sculpture.Judging by the page lining and paper quality sketches TGA 897/2/11-17 were originally drawn on sheets of the same school notebook.DIGITISATION.
- Format
- Artwork - miscellaneous
- 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 897/2/15
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Artworks TGA 897/2 (23)