  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 &quot;Woman with Guitar&quot;
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1925
  
  Artist
  Jacques Lipchitz
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1891–1973
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
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  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
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Tempera (est.) on wood
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 18 × 24 inches (45.7 × 61 cm)
  Framed: 25 1/4 × 31 3/16 × 3 1/8 inches (64.1 × 79.2 × 7.9 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
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
