During the mid-1920s, he worked on a series of lost-wax sculptures which he termed "transparents," and he produced works such as Flight and Arrival in the early 1940s after his escape from the Nazis.
He's not Matisse, but one of his works was executed for the garden of Vicomte de Noailles and was titled Joy of Life, and his wife Yulla completed a 30-foot bronze sculpture for the Hadassah University Hospital that was called Our Tree of Life. During the mid-1920s, he worked on a series of lost-wax sculptures which he termed "transparents," and he produced works such as Flight and Arrival in the early 1940s after his escape from the Nazis. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden houses a copy of a work by this man featuring a (*) Titan who holds the claws of a giant bird while throttling its neck; that was originally cast in plaster for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition and is titled Prometheus Strangling the Vulture. For 10 points, identify this man who collaborated with Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Alexander Archipenko and was a Russian-born Cubist sculptor.
He's not Matisse, but one of his works was executed for the garden of Vicomte de Noailles and was titled Joy of Life, and his wife Yulla completed a 30-foot bronze sculpture for the Hadassah University Hospital that was called Our Tree of Life.
Jacques {Lipchitz} [or {Chaim Jakob Lipchitz}]