Head and Hands

The patinated plaster sculpture is part of a series developed by the Lithuanian artist in the early 1930s, all centred on the same subject. As the title suggests, it is a head, depicted with the shape of the hair similar to the wings of a bird in flight, supported by two intertwined hands. Lipchitz's interest in anatomical parts recalls the sculpture of Auguste Rodin and Henry Moore, to whom he was strongly attracted.