Standing Woman

Standing Woman (1932) is the most renowned sculpture by French-born American artist Gaston Lachaise. The work exemplifies Lachaise's signature style, featuring a voluptuous female nude with gracefully tapering limbs. Lachaise was celebrated for his massively proportioned female nudes and also gained recognition as a skilled portraitist, creating busts of notable artists and literary figures. He studied sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later immigrated to the United States, where he worked as an assistant to sculptor Paul Manship. The Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work in 1935, the first for an American sculptor at the institution.1