| Floating Figure | |
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 Floating Figure (1927, bronze), no. 5 from an edition of 7, National Gallery of Australia | |
| Artist | Gaston Lachaise |
Floating Figure is a 1927 sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. [1] [2] [3]
| Floating Figure | |
|---|---|
| Floating Figure (1927, bronze), no. 5 from an edition of 7, National Gallery of Australia | |
| Artist | Gaston Lachaise |
Floating Figure is a 1927 sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. [1] [2] [3]
According to the National Gallery of Australia, seven bronze casts were made at Modern Art Foundry in Long Island City, New York, and are located at the Museum of Modern Art, [4] the Society Hill Project in Philadelphia, the Ray Stark Collection in Beverly Hills, California, the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, [5] the Putnam Collection of Sculpture at Princeton University in New Jersey, [6] and the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. [7]
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