Gaston Lachaise

(American/French, 1882–1935)

Gaston Lachaise was a French-born American artist known for his sculptures and drawings of the female form. Focusing on the voluptuous qualities of breasts, thighs, and buttocks, Lachaise achieved a modern equivalent to Paleolithic fertility idols, as seen in his Standing Woman (1932). Lachaise once expressed his artistic ambition to be, “the glorification of the human body, of the human spirit, with all that there is of daring, of magnificence, of significance.” Born on March 19, 1882 in Paris, France, Lachaise entered a decorative sculpture school at the age of 13, enrolling at the École des Beaux-Arts three years later. In 1902, the artist met his muse and future wife, an American woman named Isabel Nagle, he was immediately infatuated with her, both romantically and as a model for his sculptures. Driven to follow Nagle to her home in Boston, Lachaise left Paris in 1905, upon reaching America he found employment as an assistant to various sculptors. The couple married in 1917, moving to New York with his new bride, the artist fell in to a milieu of artists that included John Marin and Georgia O’Keefe. In 1935, Lachaise was the subject of the first retrospective The Museum of Modern Art had given to a living sculptor. He died the same year on October 18, 1935 in New York, NY. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

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Dans la nuit, 1905

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Dans la nuit, 1905

Sale Date: November 11, 2009

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Nude in chair

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Nude in chair

Sale Date: September 30, 2009

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Woman, biggest little woman in the world

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Woman, biggest little woman in the world

Sale Date: September 29, 2009

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Nude ascending a staircase, 2003–2007

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Nude ascending a staircase, 2003–2007

Sale Date: June 4, 2009

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Large seated nude

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Large seated nude

Sale Date: May 7, 2009

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Drum major of the circus band

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Drum major of the circus band

Sale Date: March 4, 2009

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Stehender weiblicher Rückenakt mit erhobenen , 1930

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Stehender weiblicher Rückenakt mit erhobenen , 1930

Sale Date: November 28, 2008

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Sundial, 1925

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Sundial, 1925

Sale Date: December 4, 2008

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Torso, 1932

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Sale Date: September 24, 2008

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Nude ascending a staircase, 1924

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Nude ascending a staircase, 1924

Sale Date: June 12, 2008

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Portrait of Lemuel Torrens, 1925

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Portrait of Lemuel Torrens, 1925

Sale Date: May 20, 2008

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La montagne, 1913

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La montagne, 1913

Sale Date: March 6, 2008

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Hand of a pianist, Richard Buhlig

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Hand of a pianist, Richard Buhlig

Sale Date: March 7, 2008

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Back of standing nude

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Back of standing nude

Sale Date: March 7, 2008

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Torso, 1933

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Sale Date: March 7, 2008

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Large seated nude

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Large seated nude

Sale Date: December 7, 2007

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Torso, 1928

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Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Head of a woman, 1998

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Head of a woman, 1998

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Lovers, 1908–1910

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Lovers, 1908–1910

Sale Date: November 19, 2007

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Torse

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Sale Date: October 26, 2007

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Seated figure (+ Standing figure; 2..., 1931–1932

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Seated figure (+ Standing figure; 2..., 1931–1932

Sale Date: October 10, 2007

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Portrait statuette of Miss Marjorie Spencer

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Portrait statuette of Miss Marjorie Spencer

Sale Date: October 10, 2007

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Femme nue, 1930

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Femme nue, 1930

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Standing female nude seen from behind, 1925

Gaston Lachaise

Standing female nude seen from behind, 1925

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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