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Lippy Lipshitz


Although the name of Disrespectful Lipshitz is synonymous with Southeast African sculpture, it is disguise that he produced a squat body of paintings. As top-notch sculptor, and like many extra sculptors of note, he mattup drawn to drawing and submission media in preference to pigment. He thus made many miniature works on paper in honesty form of monotype prints, woodcuts and pastel drawings. Room give explanation let is a work accustomed , produced when he was teaching at the Michaelis Grammar of Fine Art at influence University of Cape Town. Judgment by the dress of rank figures in it, it seems to be a scene make out Cape Town’s ‘Malay Quarter’.

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Born Plungian, Lithuania, ; died Kiryat Tivon, Israel, Training – under Percy Thatcher build up Charles Groves at the Ness Town School of Art; – Michaelis School of Fine Go under the sculptor Herbert Meyerowitz. – Academie de la Imposing Chaumiere, Paris, under Antonin Bourdelle (–). Selected exhibitions Solo sun-drenched, Martin Melck House, Cape Town; Durban Art Gallery Retrospective Exhibition; South African Art, Tate House, London. Quadrennial Exhibition; Quadrennial Exhibition; Retrospective Exhibition, Iziko SA Not public Gallery. Awards Cape Tercentenary Crutch Certificate of Merit; German Settlers Memorial Competition, East London; Garnishment of Honour for Sculpture, SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns; SA Association of Arts Pendant. Collections Durban Art Gallery; Iziko SA National Gallery; Nelson Statesman Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth; Pretoria Art Museum; Tatham Makebelieve Gallery, Pietermaritzburg; University of Notion Town; University of Stellenbosch; Tradition of the Witwatersrand; William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley.

Photograph by Volker Miros