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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.176
People
Gaston Lachaise, American (Paris, France 1882 - 1935 New York, NY)
Title
Two Nude Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305752

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 61.2 x 48.4 cm (24 1/8 x 19 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., graphite: G. Lachaise
  • inscription: graphite, upper right: 32-35; verso, graphite: 2839C

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfrte Center, Connecticut, 1957, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.

NOTE: Provenance information from label on back of frame.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lois Orswell
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.176
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 136, pp. 371, 377

Exhibition History

  • Margaret Brown Memorial Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 11/10/1957 - 12/15/1957
  • Three American Sculptors and the Female Nude: Lachaise, Nadelman, Archipenko, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1980 - 06/15/1980; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/17/1980 - 09/15/1980

Verification Level

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