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GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)

Lot 140
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ID 1336325
Lot 140 | GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000
GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)
Woman on a Couch [LF 69]
signed, numbered, stamped with foundry mark and inscribed 'G. LACHAISE/© 1\11 LACHAISE/ESTATE MODERN ART/FDRY./N.Y.' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 13 ¼ in. (33.3 cm.)
Conceived circa 1919; this version by 1928 and cast in 1964




Provenance

Lachaise Foundation, Boston.
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York (by 1966).
Jerome Zipkin, New York (1967).
(probably) Acquired from the above by the late owner.



Literature

Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings by Gaston Lachaise, exh. cat., Bourgeois Gallery, New York, 1920, no. 2 (original plaster version referenced; titled Portrait).
E.E. Cummings, "Gaston Lachaise" in The Dial, vol. 68, no. 2, 1920, pp. 203-204 (original plaster version illustrated, n.p.; titled Portrait).
H. McBride, “Society of Independent Artists Provides a School for Critics” in New York Herald, New York, 21 March 1920, p. 56 (original plaster version illustrated; titled Portrait).
W. Pach, "Les tendances modernes aux Etats-Unis" in L'Amour de l'Art, vol. 3, no. 1, January 1922, p. 30 (original plaster version illustrated; titled Sculpture).
The Museum of Modern Art, Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat, New York, 1935, no. 13, p. 24 (original plaster version illustrated, pl. 13; incorrectly noted as bronze).
Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964, no. 69 (another cast illustrated).
H. Kramer, “American Sculpture, Public and Private” in The New York Times, 13 February 1966, p. 21 (illustrated).
H. Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, New York, 1967, p. 49, no. 44 (illustrated).
D.B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise: Sculptor," PhD diss. vol. 1, Harvard University, 1969, pp. 306-308, 516, 518-519, 548-549n85, 559n147, 559n149; vol. II, pp. 55-56, 273-76, 420, 423, pl. XXV, pl. XCCIII-A, pl. XCCIII-B (the present example referenced, vol. II, p. 423; plaster model of first version illustrated, vol. II, p. 56, pl. XXV, incorrectly as Woman on Sofa (home); broken plaster model of second version illustrated, vol. II, p. 274, pl. CXXIII-A, incorrectly noted as bronze; another example illustrated, vol. II, p. 276, pl. CXXIII-B).
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, New York, 1974, pp. 218-219, 248 and 709-710 (another cast illustrated, p. 218, fig. 293).
G. Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, pp. 108-110 (original plaster version illustrated, p. 109, fig. 48, with incorrect owner and date; another cast illustrated, p. 109, fig. 49).
A. Tapert, “Mica Ertegun: Fine Tuning an Enduring Arrangement in Manhattan” in Architectural Digest, vol. 54, no. 9, September 1997, pp. 170-171 (illustrated in color).
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, ed., American Selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, 2009, pp. 42-43 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 42).
J. Day, J. Stenger, K. Eremin, N. Khandekar and V. Budny, Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 30, 40, 63 and 66nD.



Exhibited

New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Drawings and Sculpture by Gaston Lachaise, February 1966 (illustrated).
Artist:Gaston Lachaise (1882 - 1935)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Auction house category:Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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