Man with a Guitar

Jacques Lipchitz · 1915

You're looking at Man with a Guitar, carved in limestone by Jacques Lipchitz in nineteen fifteen. Lipchitz translated the Cubist still life into freestanding sculpture, where a guitar becomes an armature of interlocking vertical planes.

Medium Limestone · Dimensions 38 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 7 3/4" (97.2 x 26.7 x 19.5 cm) · Credit Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Development of a Bottle in Space, Guitar

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Construction of Volume Relations, Man in the Open Air, Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), Head of a Woman, Woman at the Piano, Torso

More by Jacques Lipchitz here: Reclining Nude with Guitar