Standing Woman

Lachaise, Gaston

dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 1932	en_US
dc.creator	Lachaise, Gaston	en_US
dc.date	1932	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2007-11-02T17:51:21Z
dc.date.available	2007-11-02T17:51:21Z
dc.date.issued	1932	en_US
dc.identifier	105100	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22172	en_US
dc.description	"At twenty, in Paris," Lachaise wrote in 1928, "I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that has directed my forces." The young American in question, Isabel Nagle, would eventually become Lachaise's wife, and Standing Woman and other works are certainly inspired by her. In Isabel, Lachaise seems to have seen greater forces and principles of human life: "You are," he once told her, "the Goddess I am searching to express in all things." Like many twentieth-century sculptors, Lachaise wanted to escape the classical tradition, and some of his smaller, more private works distend and exaggerate parts of the female body in ways that recall the swollen forms of Paleolithic fertility figures. The unshakable calm and dignity of Standing Woman are closer to classical art, but Lachaise stretches classical proportion with muscular rounding and augmented mass and height. For all their weight, the figure's breasts and hips, arms and thighs balance evenly around her slender waist. Her easy pose, commanding uprightness, and direct gaze give her a regal force. Standing Woman embodies Lachaise's stated ambition for his art: to express "the glorification of the human being, of the human body, of the human spirit, with all that there is of daring, of magnificence, of significance."	en_US
dc.description	full view	en_US
dc.format.extent	223.6 x 104.3 x 48.4 cm (88.03 x 41.06 x 19.06 inches)	en_US
dc.format.medium	bronze	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	131250	en_US
dc.rights	(c)Davis Art Images	en_US
dc.subject	Women -- Portraits	en_US
dc.subject	Artists' spouses	en_US
dc.subject	Female nude in art	en_US
dc.subject	Standing	en_US
dc.subject	Sculpture, French --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Art, Modern --20th century	en_US
dc.subject	Proportion	en_US
dc.title	Standing Woman	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	MOMA-S1035	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	Repository: Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: 251.48	en_US
vra.culturalContext	French	en_US
vra.technique	casting (process)	en_US
vra.worktype	Bronze (sculpture)	en_US
dc.contributor.display	sculptor: Gaston Lachaise (French, 1882-1935)	en_US