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Woman (Elevation)
Inscriptions
Cast on base: G. Lachaise © 1927
Provenance
The artist, New York; by descent to his widow, Isabel Dutaud Nagle Lachaise (1872–1957), New York, 1935; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.
Exhibition history
New York, The Brummer Gallery, Lachaise, Feb. 27–Mar. 24, 1928, cat. 5. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Publications
Katharine Kuh, “Lachaise: Sculptor of Maturity,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 40, 3 (Mar. 1946), 31, ill. Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise (Eakins Press, 1967), 11. Gerald Norland, Gaston Lachaise: The Man and His Work (George Braziller, 1974), 74. Sam Hunter, Lachaise (Cross River Press, 1993), 23–25. Otto G. Ocvirk and Robert E. Stinson, et al., Art Fundamentals, 7th edition (William C. Brown, 1994), 260, ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Eldelstein (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 32. Virginia Budny, “Gaston Lachaise’s American Venus: The Genesis and Evolution of Elevation,” American Art Journal 34 & 35 (2003–2004), 64, fig. 1. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 49–52, cat. 5 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gaston Lachaise (American, born France, 1882–1935)
- Date
- Modeled 1912–15, cast 1927
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- With base: 182.9 × 71.1 × 43.2 cm (72 1/16 × 28 × 17 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- bronze
- Style
- Modernism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1943.580
More by Gaston Lachaise in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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