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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Untitled is a photographic by Jacques Lipchitz, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a black-and-white photo of a rough, textured sculpture. It looks like a pile of heavy, angular metal parts—maybe gears, wheels, or broken machinery—stacked unevenly. The surfaces are dark with sharp edges, and some pieces have holes or bolts sticking out. The artist carved or shaped these forms to look industrial, almost like scrap metal. The lighting highlights the deep shadows between the shapes, making them pop against the background. Next, check out Lipchitz, Jacques to see how he played with form in other works.
A photograph mounted on green card is part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist and art historian known for his work on sculpture, distributed questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, and this image is one of the responses he received. The photograph is held in the Archive of Art and Design.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Jacques Lipchitz was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were…
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