Jacques Lipchitz
Seated Guitar Player
Original model 1918; this cast after 1945
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Jacques Lipchitz
Seated Guitar Player
Original model 1918; this cast after 1945
Physical Qualities
Bronze, 30 x 13 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (76.2 x 34.3 x 40 cm)
Credit Line
Alan and Janet Wurtzburger Collection
Object Number
1966.55.13
In 1909, at the age of eighteen, Lipchitz left his native Lithuania to become a sculptor in Paris. Supported by a stipend from his family, he rented a studio
in Montparnasse in 1912—next door to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. He became acquainted with Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, and Juan Gris and soon developed an interest in avant-garde art, especially cubism. Lipchitz
produced a significant body of works treating familiar cubist and Spanish themes, including figures with a variety of musical instruments.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1966; Janal Foundation Inc (established at time of Alan Wurtzburger's death); Alan and Janet Wurtzburger, Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Art of Music from the Baltimore Museum of Art," circulated to Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland, January 8, 2005 - February 26, 2005; The Washington Country Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, September 30, 2005 - November 20, 2005; The Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, December 9, 2005 - February 5, 2006; Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, February 15, 2006 - April 9, 2006
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, "The Crystal and the Flame: Cubism and War," October 20, 2016-January 29, 2017.
Museu Picasso, Barcelona, "The Crystal and the Flame: Cubism and War," October 20, 2016-January 29, 2017.
Green, Christopher. "Cubism and War: The Crystal in the Flame." Barcelona: Museu Picasso; Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2016.
Inscribed: On back of base: "J. Lipchitz 4/7" (with thumbprint) / "MODERN ART FDRY N. Y."
