id:			141232
accession number:	1964.465
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.465
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Figure, c. 1924–26. Gaston Lachaise (American, 1882–1935). Pencil; sheet: 48.4 x 30.4 cm (19 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1964.465

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creation date:			c. 1924–26
creation date earliest:		1924
creation date latest:		1926
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creditline:			Anonymous Gift
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	pencil
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Gaston Lachaise (American, 1882–1935)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 48.4 x 30.4 cm (19 1/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1965
	opening date:   1965-10-27T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

	title:		Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965
	opening date:   1966-05-20T04:00:00
	<i>Prints and Drawings, 1916-1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-July 24, 1966).

	title:		America Draws
	opening date:   1984-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>America Draws</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

	title:		Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
	opening date:   1991-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

	title:		Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors
	opening date:   1995-11-22T05:00:00
	<i>Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions:  Works on Paper by Sculptors:  November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat.

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PROVENANCE

	(The Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY)
	date: 1964
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	Martha L. Dickinson, New York, NY
	date: 1964
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 19, 1964
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wall description:
Lachaise's highly personal sculptures of voluptuous nudes, inspired by his wife Isabel Nagel, display his idealized conception of the female figure with full, rounded breasts, arms, and thighs surrounding a delicate, slender waist. The artist's drawings, in which a single unmodulated line describes contour, are spontaneous and direct. Although this drawing was not a study for a sculpture, the figure has a three-dimensional quality suggested by the changes in the width of the line. Lachaise's drawings, like his sculptures, are dazzling combinations of force and grace, simultaneously heroic and erotic.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 52, no. 9 (1965)
	page number: 	p. 156, no. 134
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152069

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