Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973) Chaim Jacob Lipchitz was born on August 22, 1891. in Druskieniki, Lithuania. At age eighteen be moved to Paris, where be attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian and soon met Picasso, Gris and Braque. In 1912 he began exhibiting at the Salon Nationai des Beaux-Arrs and the Salon d’Automne. Lipchitz’s first one-man show was held at Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Paris in 1920. Two years later he executed five bas-reliefs for The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. In 1924 the artist became a French citizen and the following year moved to Boulogne-sur-Seine. He received a commission from the Vicomte Charles de Noailles in 1927 for the sculpture Joy of Life. Lipchitz’s first important retrospective took place at Jeanne Bucher’s Galerie de la Renaissance in Paris in 1930. The Brummer Gallery in New York hosted his first large show in the United States in 1935. In 1941 Lipchitz fled Paris for New York, where he began exhibiting regularly at the Buchholz Gallery
