The last embrace

Jacques Lipchitz's sculpture dates from 1970-1971 and represents the artist's last production. 
There is an embrace between two figures with an unrealistic appearance. Our attention is drawn to the rounded shapes of the limbs and to the sketched hand. In the remainder of the composition, there are bodies, almost formless, intertwining, in a balanced play of volumes. In this moving matter, the first figure seems to be standing while holding the other. The latter, almost bent by the embrace, exhibits a horizontal tension, the “tension of opposites” a recurring theme throughout Lipchitz's work.
 Although the artwork displays the most rounded forms of the last phase of its production, it still retains the dynamism, tension, and careful relationship between full and empty that have always been hallmarks of Cubist art.
His creative process is an experience of purification, through which he explores the meaning of life and death, using movement and form to convey personal experiences, tragedies, and autobiographical references in his sculptures.