GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)

Lot 9
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ID 753134
Lot 9 | GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)
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GASTON LACHAISE (1882-1935)Acrobat [LF 209] (Unique Cast)inscribed and dated 'G. Lachaise/©/1928' and 'R.B.W.' (along the base)bronze with selectively applied nickel plate17 3⁄4 in. (45.1 cm.) high on a 6 in. (15.2 cm.) marble baseModeled circa 1924; cast by 1928. Provenance The artist. Morris R. Werner, New York, acquired from the above, 1929.Peridot Gallery, New York, circa 1961.Private collection, acquired from the above, circa 1961.Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 2009, lot 52, sold by the above.Acquired by the present owner from the above. Literature R. Cortissoz, "Review of the Exhibition of Sculpture by Lachaise at the Brummer Gallery, New York," New York Herald Tribune, March 4, 1928, section VII, p. 11.W.B. McCormick, “Lachaise’s Sculpture is Brilliant,” New York American, March 4, 1928, section M, p. 9.G. Seldes, "Lachaise: Sculptor of Repose," New Republic, vol. 54, no. 696, April 4, 1928, p. 219.D. Haskell, "Notes of the Month," Creative Art, vol. 4, no. 5, May 1929, p. X, illustrated.D.B. Goodall, Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1969, vol. 1, pp. 397, 494, 495-6, 553n. 122 (a); vol. 2, pp. 478, 241042, pl. CXI, illustrated (as Woman, Acrobat). G. Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, pp. 135-37, illustrated. Exhibited New York, Brummer Gallery, Lachaise, February 28-March 24, 1928, no. 3, 7, or 12.New York, Museum of Modern Art, Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, January-March 1935, p. 26, no. 38, illustrated.
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