Rodin's Burghers of Calais

Picasso

I neglected to get this lady's name but have found out the following:

Standing Woman by Gaston Lachaise, 1932
"Gaston Lachaise, an art student age 20, met the shapely, majestic Isabel Nagle while walking along the Seine in Paris. An unhappily married Boston Brahmin, 10 years older than Lachaise, Isabel set him on fire. Lachaise pursued her to Boston where, obsessed with Isabel's physical proportions, he began working furiously on sculptures with her as the model. He wrote her: "You are the Goddess I am searching to express in all things." After ten years of a passionate love affair, Isabel finally consented to divorce her husband and marry Lachaise. She was the inspiration for all Lachaise's sculptures depicting the female form. Lachaise knew what he liked."
Jesse Dukeminier and James E Krier (1998). Property. Fourth Edition. Aspen Law and Business Series, Aspen Publishers, Inc. Chapter 11 Fn 28, p. 1040.

Juan Muñoz

The Smithsonian Castle

click here to see my previous adverntures with my friend Kogepan which inspired these