Moses Breaking the Tablets of Law
Though Lippy Lipshitz was best known as a sculptor, he produced a small body of paintings, including this watercolor. Its dark palette is similar to that of other pictures he made in the 1940s, including monotypes and woodcuts. Here Moses is drawn in a way that suggests the three-dimensionality of a sculpted figure.
Credits
Private collection. © Estate of Israel-Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.
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