The Lachaise Foundation, Boston
Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1973)
Private Collection, Long Island (acquired from the above in 1984)
Thence by descent to the present owner
New York, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, Gaston Lachaise, October 20–December 6, 1973
Roslyn, The Nassau County Museum of Art, Monuments and Monoliths: A Metamorphosis, September 24–December 3, 1978, p. 7 (illustrated)
New York, Cheim & Read, Art Dealers Association of America: The Art Show, Gaston Lachaise and Louise Bourgeois: A Juxtaposition, March 5–9, 2014, n.p. (illustrated frontispiece and n.p.; titled Standing Woman)
New York, Christie's, Rockefeller Center and the Rise of Modernism in the Metropolis, January 17–February 25, 2015
James R. Mellow, “Lachaise Nude Sculptures Displayed," The New York Times, October 27, 1973, p. 27
Gerald Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, p. 161
Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture, exh. cat., Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, 1991, no. 35, pp. 78–79, 84 (another example illustrated, pp. 78-79; titled Standing Woman)
Louise Bourgeois, “Obsession,” Artforum, vol. 30, no. 8, April 1992, p. 87 (another example illustrated; titled Standing Woman)
Gaston Lachaise Sculptures, exh. cat., Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, 1992, pp. 25, 60 (another example illustrated, p. 25; titled Standing Woman)
Sam Hunter, Lachaise, New York, 1993, pp. 214–219, 245 (another example illustrated, pp. 214-219; titled Standing Woman)
Gaston Lachaise: The Monumental Sculpture, exh. cat., Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1994, n.p. (another example illustrated; titled Standing Woman)
Linda Muehlig, ed., Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from the Smith College Museum of Art, New York, 1999, fig. 48, pp. 48, 170, 257, note 10 (plaster model illustrated, p. 170)
Gaston Lachaise, exh. cat., La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, 2003, fig. 96, no. 79, pp. 132, 195 (another example illustrated, p. 132; titled Femme debout (Standing Woman))
Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940, exh. cat., Portland Museum of Art, New Haven, 2011, p. 112, note 1
Gaston Lachaise was a French American sculptor whose heroic depictions of women reconsider traditional portrayals of the female figure. Having studied sculpture in his native Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and worked as a modeler for Art Nouveau jeweler Rene Lalique, Lachaise brought a considerable wealth of knowledge and talent with him to the United States where he moved in pursuit of his future wife and muse Isabel Dutaud Nagle. There, Lachaise would define the nude in new and powerful ways.
Although Lachaise was a highly skilled, versatile, and knowledgeable sculptor, his practice reached new heights in the United States as he refined the core of his work: the concept of the woman as an embodiment of fundamental force, inspired by his wife, whom he viewed as the paragon of potent womanhood. Not long before he created both versions of Garden Figure, Lachaise summed up what he sought to achieve in his art: “The main thing is vitality.” FOOTNOTE: New York Herald-Tribune (New York, N.Y.), January 14, 1935, p. 7 [interview].
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