Jacques Lipchitz, one of the world’s foremost sculptors, has bequeathed 300 of the original creations in clay by the artist’s own hands, which represents his entire life’s work, to the Jerusalem Museum of Art, currently under construction, it was announced here today by Billy Rose, chairman of the museum’s art committee.
The Lipchitz gift was accepted by Mr. Samuel Rubin, president of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. “This is one of the outstanding art contributions of our times,” said Mr. Rubin. “It will do much to make Jerusalem the cultural capital of the Middle East. Mr. Lipchitz’s works will be housed in a special pavilion in the Jerusalem museum that will be for him what the Rodin Museum in Paris is for the celebrated French artist. Its doors will welcome people from Israel’s neighboring countries in a spirit of good will.”
Mr. Rose announced that the Lipchitz Pavilion, budgeted at $450,000, will be completed by 1963. “The new facilities of the Jerusalem Museum of Art,” he said “will cost approximately $5,000,000, of which $2,500,000 is presently available. The irrevocable codicil of Mr. Lipchitz’s will, which spells out his gift, was read by Mr. Rose last night to the guests who attended a small party at the artist’s house on the eve of his seventieth birthday.
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