Reclining Nude with Guitar

Jacques Lipchitz · 1928

Here we have Reclining Nude with Guitar — a sculpture by the American artist Jacques Lipchitz, nineteen twenty-eight. Carved in marble, where the work is entirely subtractive: nothing can be put back.

Medium Marble · Dimensions 16 3/8 x 27 5/8 x 13 1/2" (41.6 x 70.3 x 34.3 cm) including base · Credit Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 513: Chair for the Villa Tempe a Pailla

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Woman at the Piano, Torso, Tiari, Napoleon in the Wilderness, The Back (III), Sleeping Figure

More by Jacques Lipchitz here: Man with a Guitar