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Head of a Man

Jacques Lipchitz 1970

Lipchitz produced several portraits in the course of his career because he was strongly drawn to human psychology. His ability to capture the personality of the portrait is apparent, interpreting the physiognomy of faces in constantly changing ways.

Technical information

Author: Jacques Lipchitz
Title: Head of a Man
Date: 1970
Material and technique: Plaster coated with shellac
Size: 35x23x28,6 cm
Location: Palazzo Pretorio Museum
Third Floor

The portraits from the 1920s sculpted in Paris are classical in style and are characterised by their realism, while the later ones, which span the different phases of Lipchitz's research, further mark and illustrate his continuous linguistic and expressive renewal. The majority of the portraits created also represent some of the sculptor's closest friends and many well-known personalities from the culture and art scene of the century that Lipchitz had the opportunity to personally experience and frequent. For this reason, most of them were made from life, with the exception of the posthumous portrait of Théodore Géricault, studied on his death mask, and the commemorative bust of American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, made from a photographic source.