Seated Man (Meditation)

Inscription: Signed (on top of base, rear proper right): J Lipchitz

Marking: Foundry mark stamped into base: IRE / VALSAURAS / PARIS [square frame around mark]

[Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, until 1952; sold on February 11, 1952 to Steinberg]; Muriel Kallis Steinberg, Chicago (1952–2006; her gift to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection," May 21–September 27, 1981, unnumbered cat. (p. 23).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 17, 2007–February 3, 2008, extended to March 2, 2008, no. 6.

H. H. Arnason. Jacques Lipchitz: Sketches in Bronze. New York, 1969, p. 11 (not this edition).

Jacques Lipchitz with H. H. Arnason. My Life in Sculpture. New York, 1972, pp. 81–82 (not this edition).

Deborah A. Scott. Jacques Lipchitz and Cubism. New York and London, 1978, pp. 162, 166–69, 189 (not this edition).

Hilton Kramer. "Modernist Show Moves Met Firmly into Art of 20th Century." New York Times (May 22, 1981), p. C21.

William S. Lieberman in An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1981, p. 22, ill. p. 23 (color).

Alan G. Wilkinson. The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, The Paris Years 1910-1940. New York, 1996, no. 176 ("edition unknown").

Michael R. Taylor in Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 27–29, no. 6, ill. (color).

Roberta Smith. "A Collector's Keen Eye for Modernists." New York Times (September 21, 2007), p. E36.