By Gaston Lachaise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Male Nude, Arms upraised (Kouros)
Graphite on wove paper, c. 1930
Signed lower right (see photo)
Possibly exhibited in May 8-June 1,1973 at Alan Stone Gallery entitled Erotica, which lists Lachaise as one of the artists exhibited.
Part of small group of drawings of the male nude, done late in the artist's life, many of which are in museums (MMA, FAMSF, Whitney, Yale, Princeton).
Almost identical to the Lachaise drawing in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which is the same size and depicts the same model. (see photo)
Very similar to the smaller Lachaise drawing in the Whitney Museum of American Art (Accession number 32.2).
The Metropolitan Museum has a Lachaise male nude drawing with one arm upraised (Accession Number: 68.91.1)
Provenance: Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Alan Stone Projects, New York (see photo of label)
Condition: excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic for UV protection
22K gold leaf frame
Image size: 17 3/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Regarding Alan Stone Gallery:
"Founded in 1960 by visionary connoisseur and dealer Allan Stone (1932 – 2006), the gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century.
Celebrated for his eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th Century, Allan Stone was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and a passionate collector of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. He also promoted and collected the work of a younger generation of artists, including Robert Arneson, Jack Whitten, Robert Mallary, Lorraine Shemesh...
Category
1930s American Modern Art by Medium: Pencil
