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Birth
1882 (Paris, France)
Death
1935 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York/Massachusetts
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sculpture-caricature nude, sketches
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New York Armory Show of 1913
Painters of Nudes
Sculptors
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Born in Paris, Gaston Lachaise became a sculptor, whose signature work was larger-than-life abstract, erotic female figures who were nude and reclining or standing, had pendulous breasts and large stomachs. Some of them were acrobatic and others were floating figures in fountains. He also did an occasional male nude as well as portrait busts.
Gaston Lachaise was the son of a master cabinet-maker and wood carver with whom he trained. At age 13, he enrolled in the Bernard Palissy School to (showing 500 of 5850 characters). |
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