Three times in his 62 years Jacques Lipchitz has had to rise from the ashes of disaster to pursue his career as a sculptor. When he was a youthful art student in Paris, his father, a Lithuanian ...

A stocky, intense French citizen, Jacques Lipchitz has been turning out weird, passionate work for 33 years. He is one of the world’s most highly praised and least understood sculptors.

A 10-ton bronze sculpture that stood for a half-century in Los Angeles has been moved — carefully — about 100 feet across a downtown square as part of a $40-million renovation.

A large part of the life work of Jacques Lipchitz, world-known Jewish sculptor, was destroyed in a fire here which demolished the building in which Mr. Lipchitz’ studio was located.