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Prometheus and the Vulture (Maquette No. 2)
Image Not Available for Prometheus and the Vulture (Maquette No. 2)

Prometheus and the Vulture (Maquette No. 2)

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born in Lithuania, also active in France), 1891–1973)
1933
Medium/TechniqueTerracotta
DimensionsOverall: 22.2 × 14.6 × 19.7 cm (8 3/4 × 5 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit LineJohn H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, and Mary E. Moore Gift
Accession number2020.301
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1940, left by the artist in Paris, where it was cared for by his dealer, Jeanne Bucher (b. 1872 – d. 1946) and his brother, Rubin Lipchitz (b. 1908 – d. 1993); after about 1953, retrieved by the artist and taken to Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; given by the artist to his stepson, Hanno D. Mott, New York; 2020, consigned by Hanno Mott to Martha Richardson Fine Arts, Boston; 2020, sold by Martha Richardson Fine Arts to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2020)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.