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Title:Female Torso
Artist:Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) 1882–1935)
Date:ca. 1924
Medium:Bronze, nickel-plated
Dimensions:10 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (26 x 17.1 x 8.9 cm)
Classification:Sculpture
Credit Line:Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number:1984.433.33
Inscription: Signed (back): G. LACHAISE
Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (by 1936–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1936–82; his bequest to MMA)
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 38 (as "Torso").
New York. Downtown Gallery. "The Dial and the Dial Collection: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture & Graphics by Thirty American Artists," September 22–October 17, 1959, no. 18 (as "Torso").
Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 67 (as "Torso").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selection Three: Twentieth-Century Art," October 22, 1985–January 26, 1986, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Sculptors' Drawings: 1900–1935," November 10, 1994–March 26, 1995, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Human Figure in Transition, 1900–1945: American Sculpture from the Museum's Collection," April 15–September 28, 1997, extended to March 29, 1998, unnum. brochure (as "Torso").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Evocative Fragments," February 14–June 14, 1998, no catalogue.
Brooklyn Museum. "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties," October 28, 2011–January 29, 2012, unnumbered cat. (fig. 28; as "Torso").
Dallas Museum of Art. "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties," March 4–May 27, 2012, unnumbered cat.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties," July 1–September 16, 2012, unnumbered cat.
Donald B. Goodall. "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor." PhD diss., Harvard University, 1969, pp. 581–83, 775, calls it "Torso"; dates it 1928.
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 492, calls it "Torso".
Gerald Nordland. Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work. New York, 1974, p. 140, fig. 75 [not this edition].
Ann Keck-Henderson. "A View from the Twenties: Modernism and the Dial Collection." Worcester Art Museum Journal 4 (1980–81), p. 33, fig. 4, calls it "Torso".
Joan M. Marter inAmerican Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, p. 680, no. 318, ill.
Teresa A. Carbone inYouth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. Ed. Teresa A. Carbone. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. New York, 2011, p. 45, fig. 28 (color), calls it "Torso".
Julia Day et al. Gaston Lachaise: Characteristics of His Bronze Sculpture. Cambridge, Mass., 2012, pp. vii, 64, call it "Female Torso (Classic Torso)".
Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) 1882–1935)
1930; cast 1970s (?), by 1995
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