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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Sketch by Jacques Lipchitz on the programme for ‘Fete de nuit a Montparnasse’
- Date
- [30 June 1922]
- Medium
- Pencil on paper
- Dimensions
- 270 × 210 mm
- 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 897/2/6
Description
One leaf folded, forming three pages (one page is spread). Printed program of the night fancy ball in Montparnasse with a title on the front cover: 'Fete de nuit a Montparnasse. Bal costume sous la direction de M.Andre de Fouquieres. 30 Juin 1922'. Page spread (double page) contains the list of participants, including dancer Djemil-Anik, musicians Nina Oginska, Tamar Friede, Natacha Troukhanova, Myron Jakobson and others, director of the ball Ilya Zdanevitch and the artists who made the decorations, Sudeikin, Zadkine, Grigoryev, Kisling, Pascin, Makowsky and others.On back cover there is a sketch signed 'Lipchitz', depicting a standing human [male?] figure in a fancy dress of a page, a fairy tale hunter or a prince. Two line of writing: '5 f[rancs] chasseur' and '25 f[rancs] Godrean [or Godcean]'.
DIGITISATION
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Artworks TGA 897/2 (23)