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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations
Gaston Lachaise
Reclining Woman
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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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A Legacy of Innovation: Works From The Collection of William S. Paley Sold to Benefit the Museum of Modern Art and other Charitable Organizations
Gaston Lachaise
1882 - 1935
Reclining Woman
inscribed G. Lachaise © (along the side); numbered 4/11 and stamped Lachaise Estate (on the reverse)
bronze
height: 13 in.
33 cm.
Conceived in 1925-27; this example cast in 1967-68.
We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her assistance in preparing the following catalogue entry for this work.
[with] Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York
William S. Paley, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)
Acquired by bequest from the above in 1990 by the present owner
Donald Bannard Goodall, Gaston Lachaise: Sculptor, Ph.D. dissertation, vol. I, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, pp. 178, 246, 304, 308, 329, 516-18, 519, 559; vol. II, pp. 271-72, 421-22, pl. CXXI, illustrations of other casts (as Reclining Woman, with Right Arm Raised)
Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, pp. 111-12, illustration of another cast (as Woman in Chair)
Sam Hunter and David Finn, Lachaise, New York, 1993, pp. vi, 90-91, 242, illustration of another cast (as Woman in Chair)