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Standing Woman

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Standing Woman

Standing Woman is a heroic bronze statue of a confident, robust nude woman by Gaston Lachaise that was modeled in 1928–1930 and first cast in bronze in 1933. Lachaise created the full-scale model for statue and cast it in plaster in 1928–1930; inscribed the plaster model with a copyright date in Oct

ober 1932; and immediately sent it to Munich to be cast in bronze by Preissmann Bauer & Co., a foundry known for its inexpensive yet exceptionally fine bronze casting. The bronze was evidently cast in 1933 but not completed due to Lachaise's chronic failure to pay his foundry bills. It was returned to him in April 1934 and chased and finished by him a month later. That first cast, exhibited in his 1935 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, was donated to that museum in 1948. Standing Woman has become one of Lachaise's most acclaimed sculptures as well as an icon of American art. There are eight other bronze casts of Standing Woman. The second bronze, issued by Lachaise's widow, Isabel Dutaud Lachaise, was cast by the Roman Bronze Works, Corona, Long Island, New York, in 1956, and acquired in that year by the Brooklyn Museum. An edition of six numbered bronze casts authorized by the...

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