Art: Great Images for Israel

Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born in Lithuania, lived in France, and became a U.S. citizen in 1957. but he had none of these lands in mind when he sat down one day with pen and paper. "I feel good today,'' he wrote. "My mind is clear and quiet, and I choose this day to make my last Will. After all. I am almost 70 years old." He went on to say that "apart from my family, my deep concern is for the Jewish people, saved from Hitler, in Israel." With that, he bequeathed to Israel an artistic bonanza—300 original plasters from...

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