‘‘Extract from the transcipt of a session of the sculpture commission‘, collection owner: Jacques Lipchitz, 26 April 1936‘, collection owner: Jacques Lipchitz, 26 April 1936 – Tate Archive

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Title: Extract from the transcipt of a session of the sculpture commission
Date: 26 April 1936
Description: Sculpture commission of the 'Industry of socialism' exhibition held a meeting to discuss the sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz and remarked that 'the work is made in an absolutely unusual manner for him. A decisive turn towards realism can be felt. But as it often happens in such cases, the author went too far and let some features of naturalism in his work...The work is done passively, in a rather photographic way...'
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 897/3/1/3/5