'Woman (Striding Woman)' (LF 126)

细节

Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935)
'Woman (Striding Woman)' (LF 126)
stamped 'LACHAISE/ESTATE' and with Modern Art Foundry mark (along the base)--inscribed '5/11 1982' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
17¾ in. (45.1 cm.) high
Modeled 1928-31. Cast in 1982.

来源

The Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts.
[With]Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1987.

出版

M. Knoedler & Co., Gaston Lachaise, 1882-1935, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1947, n.p., no. 26, pl. 26, another example illustrated.
D.B. Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor," Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1969, vol. 1, pp. 580, 662, n. 28, vol. 2, p. 435, another example illustrated.
G. Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, pp. 162-63, fig. 90, another example illustrated.
Marlborough Gallery, Masters of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1984, n.p., no. 32, another example illustrated.
C. Burlingham, E. Shepherd, In the Sculptor's Landscape: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1993, pp. 55-56, 108, no. 33, fig. 39, another example illustrated.
S. Hunter, Lachaise, New York, 1993, pp. 131-33, 243, another example illustrated.
Cedar Crest College, Proceedings from a Conference on the Work of Lachaise, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1996, pp. 10, 26, no. 30, another example illustrated.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, Gaston Lachaise, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1998, n.p., no. 39, another example illustrated.

荣誉呈献

Liz Sterling

esterling@christies.com Tel: +1 212 636 2140

拍品专文

According to Virginia Budny, Gaston Lachaise created the model for the present statuette of a powerfully built nude in 1928-31. Lachaise's own title for the work is Woman, although others have called it Woman Walking, Striding Nude, and, most recently, Striding Woman because of the figure's dynamic pose. The subject's small, compact head and proudly displayed, voluptuous body compare to those seen in his heroic Standing Woman (Lachaise Foundation no. 92; Museum of Modern Art, New York) an icon of 20th-century American sculpture modeled in 1928-30 and cast in bronze in 1933.

The first bronze cast of Woman (Striding Woman), the whereabouts of which are unknown, was authorized by the sculptor's widow, Isabel Nagle (1872-1957), in 1946. The Lachaise Foundation, established in 1963 to oversee the artist's estate, authorized a series of eleven more bronze casts, which were produced in 1973-84. The present cast, which is the fifth in the series, was executed in 1982. Another is owned by the Lachaise Foundation, as is the plaster model.

The Lachaise Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, has given the number LF 126 to the present work.

We are grateful to Virginia Budny for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this work.