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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. HERBERT KAYDEN AND DR. GABRIELLE REEM

Gaston Lachaise (1882-1935)
Dancing Nude [LF 11]
bronze with light brown patina
4 38 in. (11.1 cm.) high on a ½ in. (1.2 cm.) marble base
Modeled circa 1915 or later; cast by 1947.

PROVENANCE
Isabel Lachaise, widow of the artist.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, from the above, 1947.
The Downtown Gallery, New York, acquired from the above, 1953.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1953.

LITERATURE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gaston Lachaise, 18821935: Sculpture and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1963, n.p., no. 11, another example illustrated.
D.B. Goodall, Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor, Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1969, vol. 1, pp. 332, 333, 406nn. 33, 34; vol. 2, p. 437, another example referenced.
G. Nordland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work, New York, 1974, p. 118, another example referenced.
Portland Museum of Art, Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture & Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Maine, 1984, p. 34, no. 11, another example referenced (mistakenly listed as marble).
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