Lachaise, Gaston

(born March 19, 1882, Paris, Fr.—died Oct. 18, 1935, New York, N.Y., U.S.) French-born U.S. sculptor. Son of a cabinetmaker, he was trained in the decorative arts and studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts (1898–1904). He was a designer of Art Nouveau decorative objects for Ren before immigrating to the U.S. in 1906. His most famous work, Standing Woman (1912–27), a female nude with ample breasts and thighs and sinuous, tapered limbs, typifies the image he worked and reworked throughout his career. He is also known for his portrait busts of John Marin, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, and others.

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