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After Gaston Lachaise (French/American, 1882-1935) Torso, circa 1931

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After Gaston Lachaise (French/American, 1882-1935) Torso, circa 1931 unsigned bronze with a brown patina height 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in).; width 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in). without plinth Footnotes: Literature Lincoln Kirstein, Gaston Lachaise, Retrospective Exhibition, an exhibition catalogue (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935), p. 26, no. 43, plate 43 (another example illustrated). Donald Bannard Goodall, 'Gaston Lachaise: Sculptor,' PhD dissertation (Harvard University, 1969), Vol. 1, pp. 489, 552n.109, 580; Vol. 2, pp. 229-30, 446, plate CVIIII (the first state (bronze), the plaster model and another example (bronze) of the second state referenced without distinguishing the two states; the first state (bronze) illustrated). Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, 'Gaston Lachaise's Bronze Sculptures in the Fogg Museum,' in Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring–Summer 2010, pp. 5-7, 9, 12, figs. 10, 11 (the models and the first and second states referenced; the first state (bronze) and another example of the second state illustrated). Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture, (Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums, 2012), pp. vii, 19, 20, 21, 25, 30, 54n.23, 55n.26, 56n.38, 65, 66 note l, figs. 18a, 18b, 19 (the models and the first and second states referenced; the first state (bronze) and another example of the second state illustrated). N.B. The present Torso [LF 84] reproduces Gaston Lachaise's second version of a witty relief of the back of a kneeling nude woman perched on the heel of her upraised left foot. The first version of the relief was made by Lachaise from a fully three-dimensional sculpture, Kneeling Woman with Upraised Arms [LF 111], which dates from circa 1928-30. It was cast in bronze by the sand-casting process in 1931 and is now owned by the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Afterward, Lachaise developed the plaster model he had used to make that unique bronze cast by enlarging the woman's torso to make the forms of her back more symmetrical and thus suggest a quasi-geometrical, machine-age ideal. This second version of Torso [84] was produced for Lachaise by the sand-casting process by the fall of 1934 and exhibited in his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1935. It is now owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Soon after the Lachaise Foundation was established in 1963, the Foundation issued a numbered Estate edition of ten casts of the second state of Torso [LF 84], five of which have been made thus far by the lost-wax process. The delightfulness and desirability of the sophisticated composition have prompted the production of a number of other bronze casts after the second version of Torso [LF 84], including the present bronze made by the lost-wax process. We would like to thank Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her kind assistance in cataloguing this work. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

After Gaston Lachaise (French/American, 1882-1935) Torso, circa 1931 unsigned bronze with a brown patina height 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in).; width 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in). without plinth Footnotes: Literature Lincoln Kirstein, Gaston Lachaise, Retrospective Exhibition, an exhibition catalogue (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935), p. 26, no. 43, plate 43 (another example illustrated). Donald Bannard Goodall, 'Gaston Lachaise: Sculptor,' PhD dissertation (Harvard University, 1969), Vol. 1, pp. 489, 552n.109, 580; Vol. 2, pp. 229-30, 446, plate CVIIII (the first state (bronze), the plaster model and another example (bronze) of the second state referenced without distinguishing the two states; the first state (bronze) illustrated). Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, 'Gaston Lachaise's Bronze Sculptures in the Fogg Museum,' in Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring–Summer 2010, pp. 5-7, 9, 12, figs. 10, 11 (the models and the first and second states referenced; the first state (bronze) and another example of the second state illustrated). Julia Day, Jens Stenger, Katherine Eremin, Narayan Khandekar, and Virginia Budny, Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture, (Cambridge: Harvard Art Museums, 2012), pp. vii, 19, 20, 21, 25, 30, 54n.23, 55n.26, 56n.38, 65, 66 note l, figs. 18a, 18b, 19 (the models and the first and second states referenced; the first state (bronze) and another example of the second state illustrated). N.B. The present Torso [LF 84] reproduces Gaston Lachaise's second version of a witty relief of the back of a kneeling nude woman perched on the heel of her upraised left foot. The first version of the relief was made by Lachaise from a fully three-dimensional sculpture, Kneeling Woman with Upraised Arms [LF 111], which dates from circa 1928-30. It was cast in bronze by the sand-casting process in 1931 and is now owned by the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. Afterward, Lachaise developed the plaster model he had used to make that unique bronze cast by enlarging the woman's torso to make the forms of her back more symmetrical and thus suggest a quasi-geometrical, machine-age ideal. This second version of Torso [84] was produced for Lachaise by the sand-casting process by the fall of 1934 and exhibited in his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1935. It is now owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Soon after the Lachaise Foundation was established in 1963, the Foundation issued a numbered Estate edition of ten casts of the second state of Torso [LF 84], five of which have been made thus far by the lost-wax process. The delightfulness and desirability of the sophisticated composition have prompted the production of a number of other bronze casts after the second version of Torso [LF 84], including the present bronze made by the lost-wax process. We would like to thank Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her kind assistance in cataloguing this work. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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