Contains business correspondence between Jacques Lipchitz and the French authorities responsible for arranging of ‚Exposition Internationale Paris 1937‘. Jacques Lipchitz made on commission a sculptural group, titled ‚Prometheus killing the vulture‘ which was displayed in 1937 at the Palais de la Decouverte. It provoked controversies and in 1938 the sculpture was damaged by some right activists. Part of the material was selected by Jacques Lipchitz himself or Rubin Lipchitz and kept in the red folder titled ‚Expositions, commandes,sculptures, dessins‘ together with documents on other exhibitions and commissions, as well as in red folder ‚Exposition 1937‘ and in the envelope later …
Urbain Jacques Lipchitz 23 October 1936 View by appointment Letter from Professor