Mar 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Dalva brothers
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Gaston Lachaise
American, 1882-1935
Seated Nude with Drapery, circa 1930-32
Signed G Lachaise (lr)
Pencil on paper
24 1/8 x 19 inches (61.3 x 48.3 cm)
Provenance:
Edward M.M. Warburg, New York (purchase from the artist in 1933 or 1934)
G. Alan Chidsey, Plandome, New York
Eva Lee Gallery, Great Neck, New York
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (by 1962)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (gift from the above, 1966)
Sale, Christie’s New York, March 16, 1994, lot 132 (from the Trustees of the above)
Private collection, New York
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York
Sale, Christie’s New York, September 15, 2005, lot 179
Private collection
Sale, Christie’s New York, January 12, 2010, lot 197
Exhibited:
(probably) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, January - March 1935, p. 28.
New York, Forum Gallery, Sculptors' Drawings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962, no. 18.
Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center, May - June 1963, no. 18.
Gaston Lachaise’s elaborately-coiffed nude woman in this drawing is casually seated with one leg tucked beneath her hips as she faces the viewer and holds drapery in her extended hands. The same posture and gestures of display are also seen in other drawings by Lachaise of both women and men, such as the--probably contemporaneous--Seated Male Nude, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, object number x1984-110, to which the present drawing very closely compares. Such supremely confident figures represent Lachaise’s profound vision of healthy human self-expression.
Seated Nude with Drapery is evidently one of the six drawings purchased by Edward M.M. Warburg (1908-1992) from Lachaise in March 1933, or one of the four, in July 1934, as well as one of the ten drawings lent by Warburg to Lachaise’s retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1935.
We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for preparing the catalogue entry for this work.
Please note the additional provenance and exhibition history.
Framed 37 x 31 1/4 inches
American, 1882-1935
Seated Nude with Drapery, circa 1930-32
Signed G Lachaise (lr)
Pencil on paper
24 1/8 x 19 inches (61.3 x 48.3 cm)
Provenance:
Edward M.M. Warburg, New York (purchase from the artist in 1933 or 1934)
G. Alan Chidsey, Plandome, New York
Eva Lee Gallery, Great Neck, New York
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (by 1962)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (gift from the above, 1966)
Sale, Christie’s New York, March 16, 1994, lot 132 (from the Trustees of the above)
Private collection, New York
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York
Sale, Christie’s New York, September 15, 2005, lot 179
Private collection
Sale, Christie’s New York, January 12, 2010, lot 197
Exhibited:
(probably) New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Gaston Lachaise: Retrospective Exhibition, January - March 1935, p. 28.
New York, Forum Gallery, Sculptors' Drawings from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962, no. 18.
Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center, May - June 1963, no. 18.
Gaston Lachaise’s elaborately-coiffed nude woman in this drawing is casually seated with one leg tucked beneath her hips as she faces the viewer and holds drapery in her extended hands. The same posture and gestures of display are also seen in other drawings by Lachaise of both women and men, such as the--probably contemporaneous--Seated Male Nude, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, object number x1984-110, to which the present drawing very closely compares. Such supremely confident figures represent Lachaise’s profound vision of healthy human self-expression.
Seated Nude with Drapery is evidently one of the six drawings purchased by Edward M.M. Warburg (1908-1992) from Lachaise in March 1933, or one of the four, in July 1934, as well as one of the ten drawings lent by Warburg to Lachaise’s retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1935.
We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for preparing the catalogue entry for this work.
Please note the additional provenance and exhibition history.
Framed 37 x 31 1/4 inches
Taped to mat at top verso corners. Paper lightly toned. Some mat stain along edges. A few very small spots of surface staining. Tiny notch to paper at upper left. Several faint horizontal creases.
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