- Title
- Two sketches for ‘Prometheus Killing Vulture’ by Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- °Ú1935–42±Õ
- Medium
- Charcoal, wash and bodycolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 300 × 170 mm
- Description
- Sketches are not signed, not titled and not dated. The one on top depicts the group of a standing man and a vulture from behind. The one below depicts from the front the standing man only, the top half of the body. Dates are derived from the known evidences, such as Lipchitz's autobiography, saying when he was working on the sculpture.Judging by the page lining and paper quality sketches TGA 897/2/11-17 were originally drawn on sheets of the same school notebook.DIGITISATION.
- Format
- Artwork - on paper, unique
- 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 897/2/17
