Gaston Lachaise Art

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...

This very cool and stylish sculpture of a "Bee" in brass on a marble base is an authorized museum replica by Alva Studios and was produced in the late 1970s. The original by Gaston L...

Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture by Carolyn Kinder Carr (Author), Margaret C.S. Christman (Author), Alan Fern (Foreword) Paperback – May 31, 1985. Pu...

The key element to this work is that it is much larger that most of the other works on paper by Lachaise and somewhat more delineated and refined . The figure exudes sexuality has a...

Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso

Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935) "La Montagne" [The Mountain, LF 45], Patinated Bronze Sculpture, posthumously cast later, stamped "Lachaise Estate" and numbered edition "2/11", m...