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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.113
People
Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title
Floating Woman
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1924
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
31.8 x 44.5 x 16.5 cm (12 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gaston Lachaise, to; Isabel Dutaud (Mrs. Gaston) Lachaise,1935(?), gift; to Private Collector, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.113
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise, Eakin Press (New York, NY, 1967)
  • D. B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor" (Ph.D Diss., Harvard University, 1969), Unpublished, I, 476-482; II, 422
  • 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. 142, ill.
  • Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, Braziller (New York, NY, 1974), p. 130, reproduced as no. 67
  • "Outstanding Exhibitions", Apollo (June 1975), reproduced no. 1, p. 484
  • Gaston Lachaise, exh. cat., Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, 1979), no. 17, p. 11
  • Irma B. Jaffe, The Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, Viking Press (New York, 1980), reproduced in b/w fig. 87, p. 136; text p. 127, 134
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), no. 5, p. 30, reproduced in b/w
  • Virginia Budny, "Gaston Lachaise's American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation", The American Art Journal (2003-2004), XXXIV and XXXV, pp. 62-143, p.
  • 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Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim
  • Angela L. Miller, Janet C. Berlo, Bryan Jay Wolf, and Jennifer Roberts, American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2008), p. 443, fig. 13.25

Exhibition History

  • Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 01/30/1935 - 03/07/1935
  • Gaston Lachaise, Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 01/28/1957 - 02/23/1957
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Gaston Lachaise, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, 01/20/1979 - 03/04/1979
  • Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980

Verification Level

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