Lot Details
Lot 64
Gaston Lachaise
American, 1882-1935
Woman (Standing Woman with Right Hand Raised) [LF 28], model circa 1925/1926, cast by 1969
Incised on rear of base: © C. LACHAISE/ 1930 and LACHAISE ESTATE and numbered 3/11
Bronze with a light brown and gold patina
11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Provenance:
Lachaise Foundation
with Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York, from the above, July 1969
[Sale] Trosby Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida, February 3-4, 1970, lot 40
Literature:
Museum of Modern Art, Paintings and Sculpture by Living Americans: Ninth Loan Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1930, p. 21, no. 113A, another example referenced.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gaston Lachaise, Retrospective Exhibition, New York, 1935, p. 25, no. 29, another example referenced.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935: Sculpture and Drawings, Los Angeles, 1963, no. 28, another example illustrated.
H. Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, New York, 1967, p. 48, figs. 23, 24, another example illustrated.
D.B. Goodall, Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor, PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1969, vol. 2, pp. 107-08, 432, 435-36, pl. L [sic; L'], the patinated plaster model illustrated (the material and the owner are each misidentified).
G. Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, p. 72, no. 15, another example illustrated.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1998, n.p., pl. 27, another example illustrated.
V. Budny, Gaston Lachaise's American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation, The American Art Journal, vols. 34-35, 2003-2004, p. 128n. 106, another example referenced.
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC, Gaston Lachaise: For the Love of Woman, New York, 2016, pp. 6, 8, 34-35, 40, fig. 12, another example, illustrated.
J. Burke, The Saligman Collection: Saint Louis, Portland, Oregon, 2012, pp. 88-89, 202, 214, another example illustrated.
Gaston Lachaise developed the model for Woman (Standing Woman with Right Hand Raised) by revising a plaster model of Woman (Standing Woman) [LF 301], a standing nude he had executed in about 1912-13 and cast in bronze in about 1917 (that unique bronze cast is illustrated in V. Budny, Gaston Lachaise's American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation, The American Art Journal, vols. 34-35, 2003-2004, p. 100, figure 3). The first statuette was directly and seemingly spontaneously inspired by Isabel Dutaud Nagle (1972-1957), Lachaise's lover, muse, and, from 1917, wife. When creating the second work, he retained much of the nude's pose, yet augmented the forms of her body to make them more idealized, voluptuous, and rhythmically coherent-endowing her, in effect, with a stately, goddess-like presence.
A small number of casts of Woman (Standing Woman with Right Hand Raised) are known to have been produced during Lachaise's lifetime. The first cast, dating from 1926 and sold by gallerist Alfred Stieglitz to music critic Paul Rosenfeld (1890-1946), is presently unlocated. Afterward, Lachaise inscribed the copyright date of 1930 on the plaster model, and the date was reproduced on the subsequent casts of the work, including the only lifetime example that has been located in recent decades. (That cast is in a private collection.) The Lachaise Foundation, established in 1963, authorized an Estate edition of eleven numbered casts, including the present example. Yet in 1988, after eight casts had been made, the Foundation deliberately limited the edition to only those casts. The Lachaise Foundation owns the plaster model for the work.
Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation
C
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