Acrobat; together with Dancer

Price Realised USD 23,750

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Closed: 28 Sep 2017

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GASTON LACHAISE (AMERICAN/FRENCH, 1882-1935)

Acrobat; together with Dancer

Price Realised USD 23,750

Closed: 28 Sep 2017

Price Realised USD 23,750

Closed: 28 Sep 2017

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GASTON LACHAISE (AMERICAN/FRENCH, 1882-1935)
Acrobat; together with Dancer
the first signed 'G Lachaise' (lower right)
each brown ink and pencil on paper
each 24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1933.

The first:
Estate of Isabel Lachaise (the artist's wife).
with Weyhe Gallery, New York.
with Mr. Jack Fader, New Jersey.
with Ann Fader Associated, New York.
with Barclay Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1990, Lot 205.

The second:
Estate of Isabel Lachaise (the artist's wife).
with Weyhe Gallery, New York.
with Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles.
with Mr. Jack Fader, New Jersey.
with Ann Fader Associated, New York.
with Barclay Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York, 26 September 1990, Lot 205.

C.W. Glenn, "Art: Sculptor's Drawings: Expressive Renderings of Three-Dimensional Forms", Architectural Digest, vol. 39, no. 10 October 1982, p. 176 (illustrated).

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Gaston Lachaise Sculpture and Drawings, December 1963 - April 1964 (no. 153).

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Lot Essay

Forceful expressions of Lachaise’s abiding vision of exemplary human potential, these two drawings of nude performers exhibit the energized, swiftly-executed lines that characterize his late graphic style, and which nearly cover the large sheets of rag paper favored by him during the last years of his life. One drawing represents a muscular male acrobat whose face is enlivened with theatrical paint, the other, a voluptuous, goddess-like dancer dressed only in a cascading veil. The dancer’s awe-inspiring expression appears to reflect Lachaise’s enthusiastic response to an exhibition of Aztec, Mayan, and Incan art held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1933, so as to suggest a date of around the time of that show for the execution of the drawing. Like many of Lachaise’s other drawings, these are not preliminary studies for other works, but were intended as enlightening and entertaining ends in themselves.

We are grateful to Virginia Budny, author of the forthcoming sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation, for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entry for this work.