Moveable platform, Lachaise sculpture
Gaston Lachaise’s Canadian-American wife, Isabel Dutaud Nagle, was his muse and the model for many works, including this imposing statue. They met when the sculptor was only twenty; she was married and ten years his senior. He followed her from France to Boston and finally married her in 1917. For him she was “the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that has directed my forces.” The monumental scale of this nude and the full curves and buoyant swells of Isabel’s body transcend the individual model’s features and physique to create a goddess-like embodiment of female power.
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Gaston Lachaise
Standing Woman, 1955-1956
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