The Mountain
Between 1913 and 1934–35 Lachaise made four variants on the theme of The Mountain—executed in different materials (black sandstone, fieldstone, bronze, and cast concrete) and vastly different sizes (from table top to overlifesize). In all of them, Lachaise emphasized the correspondence between the rotund figure of a reclining woman and the "fertile rolling pastures, broad and soft as fecund breasts" found in the natural landscape.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Mountain
- Artist: Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) Paris 1882–1935 New York)
- Date: 1924
- Medium: Bronze, with artist-designed glass plinth
- Dimensions: 49.70.224a, b: 8 5/8 × 19 1/2 × 9 15/16 in., 32 lb. (21.9 × 49.5 × 25.2 cm, 14.5 kg)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
- Object Number: 49.70.224a, b
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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