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Title:Head of a Woman
Artist:Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) Paris 1882–1935 New York)
Date:ca. 1920
Medium:Crayon on paper
Dimensions:12 5/16 × 9 3/4 in. (31.3 × 24.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Accession Number:1984.433.224
Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): G. Lachaise
Scofield Thayer, New York (by 1921–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1934–82; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 12 (as "Woman's Head").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 140.
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. 21.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Sculptors' Drawings: 1900–1935," November 10, 1994–March 26, 1995, no catalogue.
Dial 71 (July 1921), ill. following p. 68, calls it "A Drawing".
Scofield Thayer. Living Art: Twenty Facsimile Reproductions after Paintings, Drawings and Engravings and Ten Photographs after Sculpture by Contemporary Artists. New York, 1923, drawings and engravings section, colorpl. 4, calls it "Woman's Head" and dates it 1919.
Thomas Craven. "Living Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 183.
Henry McBride. "Modern Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 208.
[Elisabeth Luther Cary]. "The World of Art: Modern Art of One Kind and Another." New York Times (January 27, 1924), p. SM10.
Clive Bell. "Modern Art, and How to Look at It: A Critical Appreciation of 'The Dial' Portfolio, 'Living Art',' with Certain Instructive Remarks." Vanity Fair 21 (April 1924), p. 56, ill., calls it "Tête de Femme".
Ralph Flint. "More Modernism in New York." Christian Science Monitor 16, no. 57 (February 2, 1924), p. 11.
"Modern Art Spirit Seen in Collection." Worcester Daily Telegram (March 6, 1924), p. 4.
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, p. 229, ill. p. 50, calls it "Woman's Head".
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 494, calls it "Woman's Head".
Paula R. Hornbostel inExuberance on Paper: The Drawings of Gaston Lachaise. Exh. cat., New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. New York, 2016, pp. 12 (misidentifies fig. 11 as fig. 12), 26, n.24, fig. 11, calls it "Head" in caption.
Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) Paris 1882–1935 New York)
1924
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