Study for "Woman with Guitar"

1925

Jacques Lipchitz French and American (born Lithuania), 1891–1973

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About the Artwork

Jacques Lipchitz first introduced reclining figures in his work in 1921. Adding a guitar, he explored spatial relationships between the figure and the object in drawings, studies on canvas, and small bronze maquettes (models).

In this preparatory study for a sculpture, the curves of the guitar rhyme with the woman’s body and contrast with the rigid straight lines of the guitar’s neck. Lipchitz explained these experiments in the following way: “What I was searching for essentially was the total integration of the objects, the guitar or other musical instruments, with the figure so that the result would be a figure-guitar rather than simply a figure holding a guitar.”

Title Study for "Woman with Guitar"

Artwork Date 1925

Artist Jacques Lipchitz

Life Dates 1891–1973

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French and American

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Medium Tempera (est.) on wood

Dimensions Overall: 18 × 24 inches (45.7 × 61 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2021.361

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Provenance

June 12, 1964, consigned by the artist to (Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
September 6, 1967, sold to F. A. Thorndike, Lima, Peru;
November 13, 1968, consigned by F. A. Thorndike to (Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, USA) and on May 23, 1969 returned to the consignor;
October 7, 1970, Sale, Parke-Bernet (New York, New York, USA), lot 83;
sold to (Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
May 10, 1972, sold to (Marlborough Gallery, Zurich);
June 15, 1972, sale cancelled;
August 1, 1972, sold to Lila and Gilbert Silverman (Southfield, Michigan, USA);
2021-present, gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman collection to Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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A Selection of European and American Watercolors and Drawings. Exh. cat., Marlborough Gallery. New York, March 1972, p. 27, cat. no. 100 (ill.).

At Cranbrook: The Smith, Hinchman & Grylls Collection. Exh. cat., Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum. Bloomfield Hills, 1978.

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Jacques Lipchitz, Study for "Woman with Guitar", 1925, tempera (est.) on wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2021.361.

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