Man with Guitar

In 1909, Jacques Lipchitz moved to Paris, where he became a pioneer of Cubist sculpture, drawing inspiration from the abstract character of African sculpture and employing simple geometric forms to represent several viewpoints simultaneously. In his memoirs, the artist describes his Man with Guitar as a transitional work, with a hypnotic gaze and a totemic presence: “Now completely frontalized, composed of massive, integrated blocks . . . it has a monumental feeling about it that indicates a subconscious desire to work on a much larger scale.”