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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Recipient
- Filip Semenovich Amstislavsky
- Title
- Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to [Filip Semenovich] Amstislavsky
- Date
- 7 October 1937
- Description
- Lipchitz explains to Amstislavsky why he failed to receive the death mask of Orzhonikidze at the Soviet trade mission in Paris (because of the Soviet bureacracy). He is eager to start the portrait of Ordzhonikidze right now, but won't be able to complete before spring.
- 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 897/3/1/3/25
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)