1962.78: Acrobat

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.78

People

Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)

Title

Acrobat

Other Titles

Former Title: "Acrobat" Upside-Down Figure

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1927

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/227756

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

27.3 x 16.5 x 8.9 cm (10 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: on base: G Lachaise 1927

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Marian H. Phinney, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.78

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Base is made of polished black stone, designed by the artist for this piece.

Publication History

• Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, 1963), no. 57, reproduced in b/w
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 32
• D. B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor" (Ph.D Diss., Harvard University, 1969), Unpublished, vol. I, p. 492-494; vol. II, p. 477
• Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 141, ill.
• Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), no. 70, reproduced in b/w; pp. 133-134
• Jeanne L. Wasserman, Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 9, p. 34, reproduced in b/w
• Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color, fig. 62, p. 69
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 152, p. 134, repr.
• Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim
• Andrew J. Eschelbacher, A New American Sculpture 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art and Amon Carter Museum (Portland, ME and Fort Worth, TX, 2017), pp. 34, 95, 173, pl. 17, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/03/1963 - 01/19/1964; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/18/1964 - 04/05/1964
• Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
• American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
• Gaston Lachaise Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, 11/05/1974 - 12/22/1974; Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 01/26/1975 - 03/09/1975; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 05/01/1975 - 06/15/1975; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 07/12/1975 - 08/31/1975
• Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980
• Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986
• American and British Figurative Art of the Inter-War Years, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/13/1992 - 12/31/1992
• Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
• A New American Sculpture: Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 05/23/2017 - 09/03/2017; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, 10/14/2017 - 01/07/2018; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 02/17/2018 - 05/13/2018

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