Estimate: $5,000 - $8,000
Price Realized: $3,200 Includes buyer's premium
This work will be included in a forthcoming catalogue raisonné written by Virginia Budny sponsored by the Lachaise Foundation.
The sculpture is catalogued as LF 235 by the Foundation
Thank you to Ms. Budny for her insight included on this listing.
bronze
with base: 16 x 8 1/2 x 10 inches
bronze height: 12 inches
inscribed G. LACHAISE and ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N.Y.
Previous owner was a friend of the sitter
The portrait is larger than life
Donald Bannard Goodall, "Gaston Lachaise, Sculptor," 2 vols. (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1969), vol. 1, p. 447-48, 449, 539n.25, 540n.29; vol. 2, pp. 185-86, 460, Pl. LXXXVII, illustrated. Washington, D. C. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. "Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture," November 22, 1985–February 16, 1986, pp. 14, 114-115, illustrated.
From the Collection of Bruce G. Campbell
Morris Robert Werner, New York, from 1929
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald N. Campbell, by 1985
overall good condition, would benefit from a cleaning
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