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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Untitled, 1932–1934

Gaston Lachaise

Untitled, 1932–1934

Sale Date: July 18, 2019

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Untitled

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Sale Date: June 8, 2019

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Untitled

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Sale Date: June 8, 2019

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Woman Seated [LF 24, 1918

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Woman Seated [LF 24, 1918

Sale Date: May 22, 2019

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Madame Lachaise, 1928

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Madame Lachaise, 1928

Sale Date: May 4, 2019

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Untitled, 1932–1934

Gaston Lachaise

Untitled, 1932–1934

Sale Date: May 4, 2019

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Untitled, 1932–1934

Gaston Lachaise

Untitled, 1932–1934

Sale Date: May 4, 2019

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Untitled, 1933

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Untitled, 1933

Sale Date: April 11, 2019

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Dans la Nuit

Gaston Lachaise

Sale Date: March 12, 2019

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Seated Male Nude with Drapery; together with , 1932

Gaston Lachaise

Seated Male Nude with Drapery; together with , 1932

Sale Date: December 11, 2018

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Dancing Nude, 1930–1932

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Dancing Nude, 1930–1932

Sale Date: January 25, 2019

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TORSE, 1935

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Sale Date: January 24, 2019

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UNTITLED [3 WORKS], 1932–1934

Gaston Lachaise

UNTITLED [3 WORKS], 1932–1934

Sale Date: December 10, 2018

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Nude

Gaston Lachaise

Sale Date: December 8, 2018

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Dancing Female Nude with Headdress

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Dancing Female Nude with Headdress

Sale Date: December 8, 2018

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Standing Nude

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Standing Nude

Sale Date: December 8, 2018

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Standing Nude, 1930

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Standing Nude, 1930

Sale Date: November 14, 2018

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Relief (Woman) [LF 128, 1925–1934

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Relief (Woman) [LF 128, 1925–1934

Sale Date: November 14, 2018

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Back of Walking Woman [LF 33, 1933

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Back of Walking Woman [LF 33, 1933

Sale Date: November 14, 2018

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Flying Figures (Two Floating Nude..., 1921–1925

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Flying Figures (Two Floating Nude..., 1921–1925

Sale Date: November 14, 2018

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Standing Woman [LF 92, 1928–1930

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Standing Woman [LF 92, 1928–1930

Sale Date: November 13, 2018

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Femme

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Sale Date: October 10, 2018

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Female Torso

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Sale Date: October 6, 2018

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FEMALE FIGURE (STANDING NUDE, LEFT HAND..., 1917

Gaston Lachaise

FEMALE FIGURE (STANDING NUDE, LEFT HAND..., 1917

Sale Date: October 2, 2018

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