America / 1920
Head of Woman
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Head of Woman as sculpture (America · 1920).
Born in Paris, France, Gaston Lachaise immigrated to the United States in 1906, to be with his future wife.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this sculpture as pink Tennessee marble and black pigment and credits Gaston Lachaise (American, born France, 1882–1935).
The museum's collection notes: Gaston Lachaise acknowledged that his wife, Isabel Dutaud Nagel Lachaise, was "the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that has directed my forces." Head of a Woman is one of several sculpted portraits he made of her.
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