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GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)

Lot 32
18.04.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 40 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1182838
Lot 32 | GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)

Sea Lion (Seal) [LF 16/LF 222]

inscribed 'G. LACHAISE' and '©/1921' (on the base)—inscribed 'ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y-' (along the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high

Modeled circa 1914-17; cast circa 1921-26.





Provenance

C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York.

William J. Lynch, New York, by 1930.

Michael Fitzgerald, New York, by bequest from the above.

Private collection, by descent from the above.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.



Literature

Bourgeois Galleries, Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Gaston Lachaise, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1918, no. 26, another example referenced.

"Galleries Display Great Variety of New Work," New York Herald, February 17, 1918, 3rd section, p. 8, another example referenced.

E.W. Powell, "In Art Studios and Galleries," The Evening Mail, February 23, 1918, p. 6, another example referenced.

“Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum," Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, vol. 22, no. 13, April 12, 1919, p. 197, another example illustrated.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Special Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Illustrating Wild Life in Art, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, New York, 1919, p. 15, no. 91, another example referenced.

Catalogue of Copyright Entries, pt. 4, n.s. vol. 16, no. 1, Washington, D.C., 1922, p. 22, the work referenced.

C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, Important Collection of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American & European Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1922, no. 3, an unidentified example referenced.

A.E. Gallatin, "Gaston Lachaise," The Arts, vol. 3, no. 6, June 1923, pp. 398, 402, an unidentified example illustrated.

A.E. Gallatin, Gaston Lachaise, New York, 1924, pp. 14, 51, pl. 16, an unidentified example illustrated.

C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, An Illustrated Catalogue of an Important Collection of Paintings, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1924, no. 32, an unidentified example referenced.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 8, August 1924, p. 203, another example referenced.

The Arts Club of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 1925, no. 14, an unidentified example referenced.

Albright Art Gallery, Catalog of Exhibitions Commemorating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Opening of the Albright Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Buffalo, New York, 1930, p. 24, no. 15, an unidentified example referenced.

D. Phillips, The Artist Sees Differently, New York, 1932, vol. 2, pl. CCVIII, another example illustrated.

M. Breuning, "Modern Museum Holds ...: Sculpture by Lachaise …," New York Post, February 2, 1935, unidentified examples referenced.

The Whitney Museum and its Collection, New York, 1954, another example referenced.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1963, no. 16, another example illustrated.

The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, New York, 1967, p. 48, no. 25, another example illustrated.

D.B. Goodall, “Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor,” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1969, vol. 1, pp. 389-396, 416n114; vol. 2, pp. 133, 134, 482, pl. LXI, other examples referenced and another illustrated.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalogue of the Collection, New York, 1975, p. 191, another example referenced.

The Phillips Collection in the Making 1920-1930, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1979, p. 83, no. 171, another example referenced.

M. Phillips, Duncan Phillips and His Collection, New York, 1982, p. 320, another example referenced.

P. Sims, Gaston Lachaise: A Concentration of Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1980, pp. 14-15, 32, another example illustrated.

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Gaston Lachaise: 100th Anniversary Exhibition, Sculpture and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Palm Springs, California, 1982, pp. 20, 33, no. 11, another example illustrated.

J. Holverson, Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture & Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Maine, 1984, no. 21, p. 34, another example referenced.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection, Los Angeles, California, 1991, p. 410, another example illustrated.

The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making, Washington, D. C., 1999, p. 412, another example referenced.

When Modern was Contemporary: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection, Purchase, New York, 2014, p. 238, another example referenced.

V. Budny, New York’s Left Bank: Art and Artists Off Washington Square North, 1900-1950, New York, 2006, p. 31, another example illustrated.

J. Day, J. Stenger, K. Eremin, N. Khandekar, V. Budny, Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012, pp. 30, 56-57n45, 65, 66nk, 68, 68nj, other examples referenced.



Exhibited

Santa Fe, New Mexico; New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Works by Gaston Lachaise: A Modern Epic Vision, August 10-December 21, 2012, pl. 43, illustrated.

New York, Park Avenue Armory, Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC, Gaston Lachaise: For Love of Woman, May 5-9, 2016, pp. 6, 7, 13n19, 28, 29, fig. 9, illustrated.
Artist:Gaston Lachaise (1882 - 1935)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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