Jacques Lipchitz, the famous Jewish sculptor, has accepted a commission from Hadassah to create a giant bronze “Tree of Life” to stand on the grounds of the rebuilt Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Lipchitz, who is in his eighties, told newsmen that the work will take approximately three or four years to complete. Discussing his plans for the statue, Lipchitz told newsmen that it will be abstract as “all art is abstract.” He declared that the “Tree of Life” would be the “crown of my work.” “I have a few things to finish,” said the octogenarian sculptor, “but the “Tree of Live” will dominate my whole existence for the next three or four years.”
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