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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.188
People
Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title
Female Torso
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
1928
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232572

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
21.6 x 20.3 x 6.4 cm (8 1/2 x 8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: at top: G. La[ ]aise 1928
  • inscription: At top: RBW; inside proper right thigh: No 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Margaret Brown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, 1952(?), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.188
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Irma B. Jaffe, The Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, Viking Press (New York, 1980), p. 136, Fig. 88 (repr. in b/w)
  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 99, fig. 48, pp. 103-105, 325, 375
  • 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Bronze Sculpture" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2006), Unpublished, pp. 1-77 passim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. 2-3, fig. 1, ill (color)

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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