Lot 24036 | PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FORT WORTH, TEXAS
GASTON LACHAISE (French-born American 1882-1935)
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GASTON LACHAISE (French-born American 1882-1935)
Egyptian Head
Bronze, cast 2/8
Signed on baseG. Lachaise ©1923
Bears the estate stamp Lachaise Estate
20in. high
PROVENANCE:
From the estate of Isabel Lachaise;
Felix Landau, Los Angeles, California;
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965,
Private Collection, Fort Worth, TX
No American achieved the same degree of classical perfection in sculpture as Gaston Lachaise who, like Matisse and Picasso, used the portrait bust as a means to explore concepts of ideal beauty and formulate abstract principles about mass, surface, and line. The surface treatment prefigures that of Henry Moore in his reclining torsos of the 1940s and 50s.
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