Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=1669026544CE38840082103CBA34C511A5B30592B23BB8168814D95D96BF2DEE&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=1425.1924_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=BB75E44133FB8C64799654811B1935B5C9F6162BB22BC9DAC3060161A7D78EA1&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=%5C1425.1924det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=D199C077B0F2E1D6822B1CB26AFB3FC4E0EB08165683C37A079B7C535FBA006C&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=%5C1425.1924det02_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0A48588B89A0036242F1622AA7DD94B169C4C41EB56498F3D01B434B23C80458&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=%5C1425.1924det03_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=0A48588B89A00362F8947D3371A3DE9578EDAE42FAD43E5CE0229BAE3011FD64&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=%5C1425.1924det04_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=E8D2DD2272925768DA1306CFD5EB3490B2BDCAE488CF2F465F1D7732D2F88AE3&s=24247294&se=1373587083&v=0&f=%5C1425.1924det05_o2.jpg

Additional Views

Apr 16, 2015

Head of a Woman

1923

sculptor

Gaston Lachaise

(American, 1882–1935)

America, 20th century

Pink Tennessee marble and black pigment

Overall: 64.2 x 54 x 40 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

Weight: 99.79 kg (220 lbs.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1924.1425

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed on base: G. LACHAISE 1923

Provenance

C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, NY

Citations

Solender, Katherine. The American Way in Sculpture, 1890-1930. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986. cat. #37, p. 39, repr.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. cat. no. 24.

Milliken, William M. "Head of a Woman by Gaston Lachaise." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 11:8 (October 1924). Mentioned: pp. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167

"Head of a Woman by Gaston Lachaise." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 8 (October 1924): 160-161 Mentioned: p. 160-161; Reproduced: p. 167

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. Reproduced: p. 37 archive.org

Exhibition history

CMA, 1924: "The Fourth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," no cat.

CMA, 1924: "Exhibition of Paintings by Zuloaga and Sorolla, and Sculpture by Lachaise and Bourdelle," no cat.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1935: Work of Gaston Lachaise, cat. no. 15, pl. 15.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1964: "Work of Gaston Lachaise," and to NY, Whitney Museum of American Art

Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1979: "Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings"

Washington, DC, The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985: "Portrait Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise," cat. p. 48, repr. p. 49.

Sculpture of Our Time. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 5, 1937).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Gaston Lachaise: Sculpture and Drawings. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (organizer) (January 21-March 4, 1979).

The American Way in Sculpture 1890-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12-October 19, 1986).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Head of a Woman|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.1425|author=Gaston Lachaise|year=1923|access-date=03 December 2023|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email [email protected].

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.

You are here:

Images

Head of a Woman

Head of a Woman

Gaston Lachaise

Location

Download and Share

Inscription

Contact us