Mother and Child II

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Mother and Child II

1941

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born Lithuania), 1891–1973)

This monumental sculpture depicts a legless woman with her arms raised in pitiful supplication and a child clinging desperately to her neck. Only after Lipchitz finished the work did he relate it to a scene he had witnessed during a 1935 visit to Moscow: "I was in Russia and one night, when it was dark and raining, I heard the sound of a pathetic song. I tried to trace it and came to a railroad station where there was a beggar woman, a cripple without legs, on a cart, who was singing, her hair all loose and her arms outstretched. I was terribly touched by this image."

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Object Details

Title:

Mother and Child II

Date:

1941

Artist:

Jacques Lipchitz (American (born Lithuania), 1891–1973)

Medium:

Bronze

Dimensions:

50 × 51 × 23 inches (127 × 129.5 × 58.4 cm)

Classification:

Sculpture

Credit Line:

Gift of Wright S. Ludington in memory of Curt Valentin, 1955

Accession Number:

1955-79-1

Geography:

Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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