1914
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1914 graphite by Jacques Lipchitz, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch shows a face and shoulders turned sideways, drawn in quick, loose lines. The neck tilts sharply, and the hair is suggested with jagged, uneven strokes. The paper is light, and the pencil marks vary from light shading to bold outlines. The artist used overlapping lines to build up shadows, especially on the hat’s brim. This technique makes the forms look three-dimensional even though it’s just pencil on paper. Try looking up cross-hatching to see how artists use lines to create depth.
Jacques Lipchitz was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were…
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